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Y es, you heard correctly. Go ahead and
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on, I’ll wait). Yup, it’s true, I’m the boss, and
I don’t even like lentils. Welcome to my first
editor’s note.
“How did this happen?” you may ask.
“What’s going to happen to my favorite mag-
azine?” you may ponder. “What the
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you may feverishly scream
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a team built magazine and a little position swapping isn’t going to hurt, or even
drastically change it. You can expect nothing but a lot more fun and useful hands-
on Mac info in the future.
Still confused? Well here, let me catch you up. A few months ago Dave
Reynolds decided that managing the day-to-day disasters (mostly inflicted by
Cheryl) that rise up when running a magazine didn’t leave enough time for writ-
ing and geeking out on technology. He thus used his editor-in-chief powers to
dub himself executive editor of technology, and now he spends his days happily
playing with Mac gadgets and writing. As fate would have it, I was offered Dave’s
former post as editor. I took it and here I am, in charge. Now that that’s wrapped
up, let’s get to a topic. Did someone say “Microsoft”?
Microsoft is on Crack
For some time, we’ve been trying to tone down the anti-Microsoft sentiment in
the magazine. It’s a new era after all. Apple’s doing well and Apple and Microsoft
have started playing together without resorting to (much) hair-pulling, scratch-
ing, or biting, just like Stevie Jobs said they would. But, while researching
Microsoft’s new Media Player demo for the Mac, I unexpectedly came face-to-
face with the mindbogglingly craptacular MacTopia — Microsoft’s Mac-orien-
tated Web disaster. Let’s quit pretending. It’s time to call that lame, hack of a
company what it is: a lame, hack of a company.
I first detected the presence of sheer idiocy the second I entered through the
MacTopia main gate. It loads.. .so...very... slowly, and immediately pulverizes the vis-
itor with self-promotional catch phrases like “Mac Office 98 and Office 2000 for
Windows: Symbiotic!” Huh? Determined to get some info on Microsoft Media
Player for the Mac, I plowed forth, only to realize that nowhere is Media Player
mentioned on the site (I eventually had to do a keyword search to find a single page
of info and a download link) . But, while there I discovered that the site’s own news
and press release area hadn’t been updated since the day it was announced at
Macworld Expo... last January.
Mactopia sums up Microsoft’s core problem: It needs to up the quality of its
products. It would be a lot easier to be nice to
Microsoft if its products didn’t just suck (then you’d
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And until the powers that be at Microsoft decide they
want to make solid, high quality products, the company
is going to encounter stiff resistance from a community
of computers users accustomed to ease-of-use, power,
and elegance — us Mac users, that is . — RC
"It's time to
call that lame,
hack of a
company
what it is..."
igazine?
H aving a place for just the editor to spout off
doesn't seem fair to the rest of the staff,
does it? So starting this month, MacAddict is
going to give equal time (er, I mean some time)
to the opinions of a few of the staff members.
Here’s what they’re thinking this month:
Kris Fong
New Media Editor
Q mWhat do you do at the
magazine ?
A. Drink lots of coffee, instigate trouble, and
generally sit around surfing the Internet or
playing weird games. I really do get paid to do
that last part.
Q .What do you think of Prison Guy as editor ?
was bound to take over the establishment..
QnWhat do you do at the
A. Make coffee and play StarCraft. Wait-
Myth. Wait— -Quake liE. Wait— Word. Actually, I
write about all things Mac and struggle to come
to terms with my aging 9600— which I love, but
I’m now coveting this blue-and-white G3.
A. He scares me, but in a good way. Rob has
a natural magazine knack, and he can drink
Cheryl under the table.
QmWhai do you do at the
igmim
Q mWhat do you think of Prison Guy as editor?
A. He’s really got his priorities straight:
come in at ten, play basketball for a couple
hours at lunch. After that I kind of lose track
of him.
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and possible fire. Fortunately, the nursing
home fire only destroyed the office. No one
was injured, not even the cat. — Steve Heitke
Kid Tested,
Russ Approved
I read every Mac publication I can get my
hands on. So, naturally when I found yours,
I added it to my monthly reading. I never
considered it an essential read, feeling it was
Recently Sighted
more entertaining than instructive. However,
as I got ready to toss out old magazines, I
realized it was old MacAddict issues that I
couldn’t bear to part with. I am not sure
whether you are getting better or I am
just figuring it out, but I know I will
keep reading and saving the
copies. — Russ Leseberg
Don’t Do It!!!
Ever since I bought my first Mac nine
months ago I’ve resisted playing
games in order to focus on my work.
But you just had to include the
Starcraft demo on June’s disc, didn’t
you? I thought I’d check it out for a
minute and dump it in the trash. Now it’s
two weeks later and my hand is twisted into
a hook-like shape that can only hold round
objects the size of my mouse. My wife left
me, I lost my job, my eyes have permanently
dried open, and I’ve developed oozing sores
on my backside. What little sleep I get is
filled with nightmares of overwhelming
Xenomorph forces and I sold my left kidney
on the black market for $50 to buy the retail
version of the game. Damn you Macaddict!
You just lost a subscriber! Wait a minute, I
didn’t mean that...What’s this Myth game I’ve
read about? Is it any good? — Rob Brumm
GET ON, GET
ACTIVE. Talk
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Liar! Liar!
Cat’s on Fire!
I just recently read the May ‘99
issue of MacAddict and in the
Letters section a person asked
about a cat sleeping on a monitor.
You titled it, “Not Unless He Hacks Up A
Hairball.” I HAD to write and relay a true
story about the nursing home where my
mother-in-law lives. The resident cat loved to
sleep on top of their (PC) monitor and one
night the office caught on fire. The fire
department deemed the cause of the fire to
be too much cat hair in the high voltage sec-
tion of the monitor. Please warn your readers
about the possible dangers of letting their
pets sleep on their monitors. Monitors need
adequate ventilation to avoid overheating
W hat is that? No, over there by the window.
Is that an iMac sitting there in that
preschool room? No, it’s an iPlus.
OK, so I had a small donation budget lor my
wife’s classroom. In fact, the budget consisted
of a few cans of spray paint and a little help
from the MacAddict crew. I thought the colorful
look and fun (although black and white) inter-
face would get the attention of the kids and
place a subliminal suggestion in their minds to
make their parents go out and get a Macintosh
computer. The kids love it, they have improved
their recognition skills using Keywack, and
have really gotten into drawing using an old
version of MacPaint.
If any of you have an old Mac that you don’t
need, I suggest that you set it up with some soft-
ware and donate it to a church or other
preschool program. If there is anyone out there
willing to take on the responsibility of showing a
few kids at a young age how easy a computer
can be, 1 guarantee you it would be well worth
the time spent. You never know, one of these
kids might end up being the very next interim
CEO of Apple.— Brevard Blythe, NC
We’re Just
Tasteless
Please tell me that more than one person at
MacAddict knows the five iMac colors! You
work on Macs, eat and sleep Macs, and eval-
uate Macs. Your children are MacAddicts and
so are your dogs. So, why do you use awful
explanations like red, or “duh”? — David Delp
That Was Fast
In the teaser for the article on page 80 of
the July 1999 issue of MacAddict you said
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a CD. That wait has been over. We’ve been
selling that product for months now. It’s
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Oh, It Was Named
for Something ■■■
There is an excessive number of Macintosh
users who don’t name their hard drive.
Mine, of course, is named Squishy, in mem-
ory of my little pug, and I’ve helped some-
one else name theirs, but this banal default
CANNOT CONTINUE! I’m ranting because I
was looking at an old, old issue in which you
printed a letter where someone said that he
was clever because he had given all his
desktop folders colors (with labels), yet his
hard drive was called Hard Drive! ARGHHH-
HHHHH! — Matthew J. Wagner
There’s a
Disturbance
in the Force
In an article in your July Get Info section,
your headline and accompanying graphic
depicts an iMac as a TIE fighter, which is
clearly inappropriate, as we all know that MS
(the author’s initials — coincidence? I think
not!) is the REAL evil empire. As a correction,
I’ve thrown together a quick replacement
graphic for you to redeem yourselves. If
you’re going to use Star Wars imagery, I rec-
ommend you replace R2-D2’s head with a
blueberry iMac. “Help me Obi-Jobs! You’re
my only hope!” — Dale Critchley
Uh, we meant
TO DO THAT
Thank you for your fine article on the multi-
lingual Mac (“The Virtual Mac Traveler”,
Jul/99, pg 40) — the Meyeroffs did a great job!
Unfortunately, the multilingual capability of
the Mac OS has long been one of the Mac’s
best kept secrets, but hopefully you have
helped turn that around. One small correc-
tion: the “Packing for the Trip” sidebar states
that ASCH uses two bytes for 256 characters
and Unicode uses one byte for “tens of thou-
sands” of characters, when in fact it’s
reversed: ASCII uses one byte per character
and Unicode uses 2 bytes (16 bits). There are
other two-byte encoding schemes in use, but
the thing about Unicode is that it unifies the
world’s language scripts into a single grand
scheme. By the way, one application that’s fully
capable with every language script ships with
every Mac: SimpleText. — Dale Dellinger
It's true, and the error was introduced in
the editing process — not by the article's
authors. — DR
Hail! Hail!
I was recently approached by my Wintel-lov-
ing “friend” who, for no reason, said, “Macs
suck.” I asked why and he said, “Macs are
slow.” I remembered the article on bluffing
in your May issue and how it had a section
on defending your platform. I whipped it out
and lectured the Wintel idiot: “RISC will
always trump CISC.” I read the whole sec-
tion to him; I guess he couldn’t read and
wanted to know the truth. I thank you for the
article. Steve Jobs is GOD. — Devlin Carey
Sinbad, Watch Out
Q. What did one Mac addict say to the other
Mac addict about his clean room?
A. Your room’s I-mac-ulate.
— Russell Boynton
Good Question
Greetings, fellow MacAddict readers. I come
to you today with a grave situation. I recently
came upon a copy of the endangered species
list, and was shocked to find that one of the
most elusive animals known to man wasn’t
included. Yes, friends, I speak of the dogcow.
Apple’s beloved mascot Clams is the only
existing dogcow known to man, and the fed-
eral government has ceased to recognize the
ecological importance of her presence! Come
on, who would you rather have on your Page
Setup screen — Clarus, or a blue whale? I urge
all faithful Mac addicts to write to PETA, the
ASPCA, the president, and your congressman,
and ask that our cherished dogcow be added
to the endangered species list. After all, if we
don’t save her, who will? — Rainee Scon
We’re All Friends
In your magazine you always talk about
Nikki and all the rest of the staff. Who are
these people and how does everyone know
about them? — Tim Leaver
See the Editor's Note for a heads-up on
who's who.
Apple Giveth,
Apple Taketh Away
What has happened to the Apple section on
the Disc? If it was kidnapped buy some angry
“PC Gamer” subscribers I would be happy
to go on a midnight clubbing. — Devlin Carey
We Love Rainbows
and Unicorns
I thought the July staff video had higher
quality video than I’m used to seeing from
you guys — whatever you’re doing, keep it
up! Also, as for content, I like the inter-
views with the staff on various subjects and
I love when the staff does something really
wild like paint-balling the PCs, although I
could easily stand even more action than
that. How’s about a raid on PC Gamer head-
quaters? I also love the video movies you
sometimes have like Cafe Noir and Escape
from MacAddict. — Tom Hackett
You Know You’re a Mac Addict When...
...you wish your secretary could multitask like OS 8.6— Holly Thomas
...you clean up your desk and find one or more half-unbent paper clips— Andy Lyttle
...you and your friends compete to see who can get more letters published in the best
magazine ever (IVlacAddict, duh!). Yeah! One more point for me!— Mark Burns
...you shout out during an opera without realizing it, “Quit this application!!”
(Plaintalk Applescript) — Andrew T. Schnick
...you name your cat PowerPC (pussy cat).— G uy Scalise
...you think that ameliorate means “to drive to near bankruptcy”.— Chris Albright
...Bondi Blue was the official color at your wedding. — Philip Kirkham
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Profile of a Profiler
by David Reynolds
T he newest version of the Apple System Profiler— a
software widget that’s been around since System
7.5.3 — is like the puffer fish of system utilities. Not only
can it expand to twelve times its size when frightened, it’s
also a powerful utility that can tell you all about your Mac,
including things you wouldn’t be able to find out without
consulting 17 different utilities and pulling your Mac apart
to examine what cards are in what slots. And, as if that
weren’t enough, the Apple System Profiler also has a
comprehensive AppleScript dictionary. Here’s all you
ever wanted to know about Apple System Profiler 2.0.
Let’s See— Did I Upgrade?
The Apple System Profiler opens on the System Profile-tabbed
panel— go figure. Here, you'll find out all about your Mac, including
the system software version, startup drive information, memory
usage of all kinds (cache, virtual, and real), and you’ll even get a
chance to peek into your Mac’s production information (including its
ROM number). There’s a wealth of liber-geek information here.
Ah, Memories
Bet you didn't know your Mac used this many kinds of memory,
huh? The Apple System Profiler reports how much RAM is used
as disk cache, how much disk space is used for virtual memory,
and how much built-in physical RAM your Mac has (and what
size module is located in a given slot, for some Mac models).
The Profiler also provides information about any L2 cache— either
backside or external. This Item is especially useful for setting up
memory i
The Rest
of the Hardware
The second tabbed panel
goes into excruciating
detail about all that other
hardware connected to
your Mac— the various
SCSI, PCI, USB, ATA,
FireWire, network, and
floppy disk devices. About
all it doesn’t cover is serial
devices (such as modems
or PDA cradles).
All About the Software
If you want to know exactly what control panels,
extensions, and applications are installed on your
Mac, just click the appropriate tab. You can even
look for valid System Folders by clicking the last
tab— it tells you which volume has the active
System Folders and where any additional System
Folders are, which can be great for tracking
down odd system behavior due to two (or more)
System Folders on the same volume. The
System Folders tab only finds “blessed” (or
valid) System Folders, so if something’s wrong
with a System Folder, it won't show up on this
list— a potential troubleshooting tool for the
“flashing question mark” syndrome.
Identify Yourself
Your Mac can tell the world what model it is, and here it does—
machine ID 67. It can also tell the world what processor is plugged
into it, and the Apple System Profiler is good at detecting that, too.
Here we have a 9600 that’s been upgraded with a G3 card, and
everything shows properly here. For good measure, Apple threw in
the keyboard type here— yes, that’s a genuine Apple Extended
Keyboard connected to this Mac.
Getting Connected
When your Mac reaches out and touches some other Mac, it’s doing
so through its networking software— usually Open Transport. The
Apple System Profiler will tell you all about that software, including
version numbers, network zones, connection method, and even your
hardware address— hey, your Ethernet card needs a place to be,
too. You can also find out all about your Mac’s TCP/IP settings here.
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Software overview
r~ Mao OS overview — —
Finder: 8,6
At Ease :
Not Installed
System; 8.6 US
QuickTime:
4.0
Active enabler : None
File sharing:
is off
- Startup device — -
Name: Darter
Type: Hard drive
Location : ID » 1
Bus: SCSI Bus 2
Memory overview
Disk cache:
► Virtual memory:
Built- in memory :
Location Size
A1
B1
A2
B2
A3
B3
A4
8 MB
8 MB
16 MB
16 MB
16 MB
16 MB
16 MB
3.75 MB
121 MB
120 MB
Memor y type
DIMM
DIMM
DIMM
DIMM
DIMM
DIMM
DIMM
51 2K
Location Size
B4 16 MB
B5 SMB
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DIMM
DIMM
> Total L2oaohe:
Hardware overview
Machine ID: 67
Model name: Power Macintosh 9600 series
Keyboard type : App le Extended Keyboard
Network overview
Processor info : PowerPC 03
Machine speed: 320 MHz
FPU: Built-in
Open Transport
Installed: Yes
Aotlve: Yes
Version: 2.0.3
V AppleTalk
Installed: Yes
Active: Yes
Version: 60
File sharing:
Is off
This network:
153
Default AppleTalk zone: Maoaddiot
This node:
17
Active network port(s) ; Ethernet built-in
Hardware Address : 00.05.02.E2.36.3B
Router:
153.233
’V TCP/IP
Installed: Yes
Aotlve: Yes
Version: 2.0.3
Persona 1 Veb Sharing : is off
Multihoming:
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Netmask:
253,255.254.0
Default gateway address:
206.57.18.1
IP address :
206.57.18.57
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Name server address:
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Gadgets, widgets, and doodads for your Mac-centric lifestyle.
Think».Uh < Dissimilar
Bandwagon nearly breaking under Mac wannabe weight
T he iMac has smacked PC indus-
trial design like the comet that
killed the dinosaurs — we hope.
A year after the iMac broke us out
of beige prison (or thinking jail), PC makers
are finally getting their cheap knockoffs to
market. The clone season started back in
February with Intel’s infamous bunny-suit
fashion show (in which Intel bunnies parad-
ed onstage sporting concept PCs shaped like
fish and rabbits), and peaked at PC Expo in
June with Future Power’s announcement of
the audacious E-Power, which looks an awful
lot like the iMac — so much so that Apple is
suing to block E-Power sales. Even the big-
name PC thugs — Dell, Gateway, IBM and
Sony — are all coming around.
On the surface, PC makers are at least
trying to do something other than beige
metal boxes. Already, the new line of fashion-
conscious Wintel computers often cost less
than the iMac, even if you factor in the mon-
itor. Does that mean these knock-offs will
knock Apple out? Probably not.
Price isn’t everything. Although the iMac
may be a little more expensive than the aver-
age low-end PC, it also has better compo-
nents, and is a bt easier to use. No matter
what they look like (or how cheap they are) ,
Wintel boxes aren't simple.
Fashion is more than just color. Apple
has paid meticulous detail to design and is
well ahead of any competitor in using
translucent colored plastics.
Apple is the leader in this market — And
that counts for a lot. The computer public,
thanks to Apple’s marketing, now associates
easy, stylish computing with Apple. Period. If
anyone else wants a piece of that market,
they’ll have to play catch up. — NC, DR
It all started when Intel
showed off several
concept PCs last
February. Although
they are, charitably
speaking, interest-
ing, they’re not exactly inspiring.
We take that back— they inspired us to
make some pretty good jokes.
Er, E-Power:
pure Wintel in iMac cloth- .
ing. It looks like ah iMac,
but you can feel the
hand of Gates deep •<
inside. Future Power
only renamed the colors on these scary
clones. Instead of nourishing, fruity
goodness, pick a cold, dead gemstone:
. ruby, topaz, sapphire, emeratd and '
amethyst. E-Power’s machines should
be (disgracing shelves by the time you
read this— barring an injunction. Wfiatta
maroon, http://www.futurepowerusa.com.
MacAddict gets older... Again
I t’s that time of year when we wax
nostalgic about our youth and
run off at the mduth with a bunch
of inside Jokes. It’s definitely a
MacAddict thang that you just
wouldn’t understand. Or would
you? For all of the MacAddict
addicts that have been along for the
entire ride; (if you ask us if we’re
there yet one more time, well never
take you anywhere again 1) we’ve
compiled a guided tour down mem-
ory lane. Happy Birthday, to us!
July t9te
We put ourselves on display
with the M.A.R.S. (MacAddict
Remote Sensor) probe. Exper-
iment turns ugly when readers
start tattling to Cheryl about our
extended coffee breaks.
■
Sept. 1996:
The first issue of
MacAddict hits the
stands! We profiled
ex-Apple CEO Dr.
Gilbert Amelio, raved over Open Doc, tried to convert
a PC user, interviewed “internet visionary” Larry Tesler,
and told people why they should stand by their Macs.
r
May1997:
MacAddict gets a clean
room for the ultimate in
professional lab testing.
Our motto; If it’s good
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Oct. 1996-April 1997:
Dave plays Marathon,
20 MacADDICT SEPT/99
Want My MP3
| And it looks like I might get it!
T he Music Industry loathes it. Music artists
embrace it. Music fans want it. Love it or hate
it, MP3 is here to stay as digital music takes
a huge step into mainstream entertainment. Dia-
mond Multimedia’s huge win against the Record-
ing Industry Association of America (RIAA) over
the Rio, a portable MP3 player, gives the green
light to other hardware manufacturers shipping
and developing MP3 players. Manufacturers are
already flaunting their shiny new things in the form
of portable and car audio players. And while we
rant and rave about the fact that portable players
are currently only available to those who dwell on
the Dark Side, Mac users will have something to
sing about in coming months. RioPort Inc. (a sub-
sidiary of Diamond) announced that the
upcoming Rio 500 MP3 player will be avail-
able for an estimated street price of $269 in
August. Woohoo!
So what is MP3 you ask? MPEG Layer 3, or
MP3, is an audio file format that compresses
digital sound into tiny files that retain near-CD
quality, making it easy for Internet users with
even the slowest Internet connections to
download MP3 audio files. The file can only
be heard through a player that supports this
format (available only on PowerPC-based
Macs). There are currently quite a few soft-
ware MP3 players for the Mac that you can
download from the Internet.
And while MP3 is beginning to change
how we listen and acquire music, the Music
Industry is also beginning to realize the mar-
ket available for digitized music. MP3 tech-
nology may have made them mad, but now
they intend to get even. EMI is partnering
with Liquid Audio, who will convert EMI’s
roster of artists into its proprietary audio for-
mat, preventing illegal copying. Sony will begin to
sell digital downloads of its artists utilizing Digital
On Demand. And a new group has formed —
the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), made
up of music, software, and hardware stakehold-
ers — who is developing alternative technology
that will enforce copyrights.
So what does this spell for the future of
MP3? Against the wishes of the RIAA, it certain-
ly won’t be going away
anytime soon, but you
can probably expect to
see a lot more digital
music formats sprouting like
weeds in months to come . — KF
Got a Power Mac? Need MP3-playing software? Check it out!
MacAMP
(http://macamp.net/) Beta
This popular player is still in its
beta stage, but is updated often.
The most downloaded player of the
bunch features a nice interface
with user tweaks guaranteed to
make hackers happy.
MacAMP Lite
(http://www.macamp.net/) $10
MacAMP’s little bro is bare-bones
basic, but gets the job done. No
slick interface to knock your socks
off— only basic button controls.
SoundJam MP
(http://www.casadyg.com/) $49
Finally a Mac MP3 player with all
the bells and whistles! We’ve seen
the specs and we’re already drool-
ing. Not only can you play MP3s
and streaming MP3s, but this play-
er will also encode and record your
music into high-quality MP3s. It
also features a 10-band EQ and a
whole wardrobe of interfaces for
fickle fans.
RealPlayer Plus G2
(http://www.real.com/) $29.99
This full-featured player will allow
you to play streaming audio and
video, including streaming MP3.
SoundApp 2.6.1
(http://www.csstudents.stanford.edu/
-franke/SoundApp/) Freeware
The cream of the crop! This rock-
steady player lacks the coolness
quotient, but makes up for if in per-
formance. This robust player won’t
skip a beat, even when operating in
the background.
QuickTime 4
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/)
Freeware
Apple’s latest version of QuickTime
sports a brand new look, and it
now supports MP3.
Sept. 1997:
Cheryl makes us brush our hair
and smile pretty at the camera
for our first anniversary photo.
Also, Gil Amelia resigns from
Apple. Yet another reason
to celebrate!
Oct. 1997:
We first discover Jared,
who went on to become
a Blockbuster hit.
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NOV, 1997!
MacUser merges into MacWorld
prompting a MacAddict memorial,
the entire staff escapes to Cabo,
and future MacAddict editor Rob
Capps sneaks onto the staff as
reviews editor. If only we‘d
known then...
Jan. 1998:
Nikki and Kathy tell Rob he’s fat. Six
months later, Rob's alter ego Prison
Guy makes his first appearance at
Kathy Tatel’s going-away party.
Coincidence? Probably.
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Feh.-March 1999:
Dave plays Myth.
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FIND THE
SHAREWARE
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on The Disc.
I t’s delicious, it’s delightful, it’s de-
sugar-free. It’s actually none of those
things, but the shareware utility Black &
Bleu should become a standard tool of
every Mac troubleshooter. Black & Bleu
is a Mac OS error code analyzer with
access to information about 3,000 Mac
error codes. If you’ve ever wanted to
know what a Type -39 error (or almost
any other error, for that matter) is in a
language you can understand, Black &
Bleu will tell you all about it, and it will
give you some advice about what to do
about the error.
It’s a little pricey for a shareware util-
ity, ($34 per year) but the information it
contains is actually useful — unlike many
other programs that just report the pro-
grammer’s version of the error without
translating it for the rest of us . — DR
Add an IDE drive to your G3
A lthough you may not know it,
some Power Macintosh G3
desktops let you add two more
internal IDE drives. Some G3 models let
you add a second drive to each IDE
channel — one on the hard drive channel,
and one on the CD-ROM channel-— in
what is known as a master/slave hookup.
The key advantage to this is that big IDE
drives are getting obscenely cheap.
Here’s how to tell if you’re one of the
chosen ones who can add a second
drive to each channel. If you own a G3
all-in-one, a Power Macintosh G3 Blue
and White with a U bracket in the rear
drive bay, or a beige G3 with the ATI
Rage Pro chipset, then you’re in luck.
Make sure the drives that are already
installed are set to be master drives, and
then set the new drives to be slaves.
Mount your second drive in the case and
plug in a power cable hanging from the
power supply. Then, just use an IDE
cable with three connectors— -one for
each drive and one for the mother-
board— to connect the drives . — DR
All information in Tech Info Tidbits is taken from Apple’s
Tech Info Library at http://tHJnfo.apple.com.
Dec. 1998:
The Disc ships with the
Autostart worm. Dave
feels everybody’s pain.
Sept, f 998:
We turn two and get a bunch
of new dolls to play with for
our birthday- Rob interviews
Steve Jobs at Seybold San
Francisco. Memorable quote:
"Nice to meet you.”
January 1999:
Nikki interviews Steve
Jobs at San Francisco
MacWorld. Memorable
Quote: "Is MacAddict a
Web-based publication?’
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The word is spreading across the map.
Total Annihilation is poised to redefine
real-time strategy games on the Mac.
Total Annhilation is a real-time war game
featuring true 3D terrain and run-time gener-
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tilting and rocking with each bump in the
landscape and impact with enemy weapons.
Battle on diverse landscapes from lava
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Build defenses high in the hills for a
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and dive in intense air-to-air combat
Amphibious tanks drive into and dive under-
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Total Annihilation’s 3D landscape is a revo-
lution that demands deeper strategy and
generates more realistic game play.
Mobilize your forces and experience the
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It’s Hacktackular!
Usual cool hacks come out of MacHack conference
E very June, Mac developers, engineers,
and hobbyists converge on Dearborn,
Michigan to drink enormous amounts of
caffeine, stay up for days on end, and code like
demons. The event is laiown as MacHack, and
it attracts all kinds of Macintosh hackers
— hard-core programmers and casual tinker-
ers alike. The conference begins at 12:01 AM
on a Thursday and continues through Satur-
day — with no breaks for sleep.
“It’s grown into this hyper-kinetic caffeine-
crazed, sleep-deprived soiree,” said Hack-
meister Scott Boyd of The MacHax Group.
And, as part of this annual ritual, confer-
ence attendees are invited to come up with a
cool hack in a hack contest. This year, the top
hack (which received a standing ovation) was
Lisa Lippincott’s Unfinder — a brilliant hack
that adds an undo command to the Finder. This
hack lets you undo emptying the trash, making
an alias, or moving a file — something that
engineers on the System 7 team discussed
adding to the Finder way back when.
Lippincott commented that the hack brings
the Mac OS up to 1984 standards by adding an
undo command. An unnamed publisher
attending the conference offered to buy Lippin-
cott’s hack on the spot, but she declined, say-
ing that the utility ought to be free.
Other hacks included Eric Traut’s Out Of
Context Menus, which won second place in the
hacks competition. The hack takes contextual
menus from other applications and makes
them available in the Finder. Some of the items
(such as gaussian blur and duplicate) even
work on Finder windows.
A seven-year-old girl named Rachel Green
entered a respectable AppleScript hack — now
we feel like massive underachievers who go to
bed early . — DR
We Have a Winnah! And it’s probably not you!
C ross your fingers, stop rubbing that
disgusting rabbit’s foot, and if you’ve
been holding your breath all this time,
dear God, get to a doctorl We have chosen a
winner for our May issue’s Free-for-One Deal,
and unless your name is Joe Kendall and you
live in Hornepayne, Ontario, it’s not you! No,
you will not be enjoying free copies of
Aladdin’s Spring Cleaning and Stuffit Deluxe
worth $130. No, your name will not be men-
tioned in this issue. No, you are not really
good-looking. Oh, sorry, we didn’t mean that.
Don’t feel too badly, though. We picked
the winner at random from over 500 email
entries. It’s not like you didn’t win because
we don’t like you— unless, of course, your
name is Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, Celine
Dion, or Jar Jar Binks — NE
NEW FOR THE MAC
Site Cam 4.0
Rearden Technologies; 510-523-2267,
http://www.rearden.com; $199 ($499 for
five-pack license); Now shipping
If you’ve wanted to experiment with a
Web cam but just can’t face setting up
a Mac OS X Server rig to do the trick,
Site Cam 4.0 offers an attractive alter-
native. Site Cam 4.0 features an inte-
grated Web server, Java controls,
optional display overlays, built-in FTP,
motion detection, support for multiple
cameras, and the ability to create time-
lapse movies. Best of all. Site Cam can
even run on 68K Macs running Mac
OS 7.6 or later.
Flash 4
Macromedia; 800-457-1774;
http://www.macromedia.com; $299 street,
$128 upgrade from Flash 3; Now shipping
Vector animation buffs rejoice— Flash 4
has arrived, and it puts polish on the
Flash venue. Flash 4 now features sup-
port for MP3 streaming audio, text
entry field support, and an enhanced
selection of Actions for things such as
basic math and draggable interface
items without programming. Flash’s
interface has been given a makeover
for faster, easier authoring, integrating
new palettes, drawing tools, simplified
layers, an optimized timeline, and a
new publish command that includes
QuickTime 4.0 export capabilities.
Feb. 1999:
We tell you how to do a whole bunch of bad
things and remarkably don’t get sued! Plus,
Jeff Titterton loses a paintball battle with a PC,
though some readers believe he’d rather be
attending to his unicorn collection.
April 1999:
Our April Fools
joke gets you
again. Suckers!
June 1999-present day:
Dave plays Quake III
MacAddict goes to Cozumel, Mexico for intensive off-
site brainstorming and pre-summer tanning session
and you didn't! MacAddict finally interviews Steve Jobs
officially. Memorable Out-Of-Context Quote: "Frosting
tastes good. I think it will be pretty popular.”
May 1999:
An outraged reader, angered over
the elimination of his favorite
section, phones us and demands
that we bring back Kidz Stuff.
Sept. 1999:
Due to the time demands of
playing the Quake H! test, David
Reynolds moves to a writing job
and Robert Capps takes over as
chief grizzled stub .— HE
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LEAVE YOUR 56-KBPS MODEM IN THE DUST
—CABLE MODEMS AND DSL ARE FINALLY HERE!
T he Internet seems to be changing almost daily. That old 56-Kbps modem is just
too slow and you want something faster. Analog phone lines just don’t do it for
you anymore. Well, you've come to the right place. We’re going to talk about
speed...high speed, that is.
Technology has opened up a wide variety of options. There are two technologies running
the show right now: cable modems and DSL (digital subscriber lines). Both of these
options are available for Mac users, and they’re finally getting cheap enough for a reason-
able person to afford, so it’s time to explore them. If you’re ready to hit the Internet at
superhigh speeds, buckle that seatbelt and read on — you’ll want to know all about big
bandwidth before you hit the surf,
—
Fast, Faster, Fastest!
H ow fast is big bandwidth? Here’s how the five most popular Internet access tech-
nologies stack up by download speeds (upload speeds are typically slower). We’ve
used the highest speed connection generally available in each category — your mileage
may vary, and faster flavors of cable modems and DSL are theoretically possible.
OTHER SPEEDY
OPTIONS
ISDN
It costs too much, it’s a pain to set
up, and it’s still a dial-up connec-
tion. Don’t bother unless you can’t
get anything else.
Microwave
While wireless access is the way of
the future, it isn’t here yet. Some
small market tests are happening,
but this technology will take time.
Dual Modems
If you can’t even get ISDN, see if
your provider will let you dial-up
twice. Using handy software like
LinkUPPP! Turbo from FCR Soft-
ware Inc. (http://wwwicr.com/),
you can use two modems to double
your speed online. Still not quite as
fast or reliable as ISDN.
Cable Modems
Cable companies are good for more
than Dukes of Hazzard reruns
What Is It?
A cable modem, as the name suggests, connects to
the same coaxial cable that brings in your cable TV
signal (probably the most widespread method of high-
speed Internet access today). It’s a little box with a net-
work interface that routes traffic between your Mac and
the cable network. Most cable modems use two channels
within the cable connection to do Internet business— one
for receiving data, the other for sending it. These chan-
nels don’t take away from your viewing, however — you
can watch TV and surf the Net simultaneously. The cable
modem is a full-time, dedicated connection — no more
busy signals — and can be fast (often faster than a Tl, at
least for downloading) .
With most cable companies either in the process of or
having finished the conversion to digital networks, cable
modem access is relatively widespread. It was hard to
believe Milo Medine, the father of TCP/IP, back in early
1998 when he said that cable modems would be available
nationwide within a year, but it turns out he was just about
right. They’re not everywhere yet, but it’s happening.
I Ttie cable comes into your
house and splits, with one
end going to your TV and the
other to your Mac.
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How Fast Is It?
T his type of access can indeed breathe a healthy dose of fife into your
online experience. It’s fast. Really fast. Most cable networks allow you to
download data to your computer at speeds between 1000 and 7000 Kbps.
(Remember — a Tl line tops out at 1500 Kbps). This means your download
speeds for viewing Web pages and retrieving files will increase by a factor of
15 to 125 over a 56-Kbps modem. That’s right — at least 15 times faster,
maybe more.
Once you have this type of speed, you’ll often find that your connection to
the Internet is no longer the weakest link in the chain. Many times, the servers
with which you connect will have slower connections than you have in your
own home! The nice part is that this, too, will change, and we’ll see Web sites
increasing their bandwidth to continue serving customers as fast as they
demand. Uploading speeds (that is, the speed at which you can send data) are
typically lower than downloading speeds, but that’s okay. Most home users
tend to download a lot more than they upload, and with upload speeds rang-
ing from 500 to 4000 Kbps (still potentially faster than a Tl line), it’s still a
welcome increase over that old analog modem. It’s certainly fast enough for
real-time videoconferencing, and it can make that Quake game really fly.
What Do You Need
and What Will It Cost?
T o access the Internet this way, you need to have an Ethernet port on your
Mac and a cable modem. Most cable companies don’t sell die modems;
rather they lease them as part of the service. Prices for the total package typical-
ly average $45 per month, which isn’t bad when you add up the costs of analog
access. A separate telephone line and an account with a dial-up ISP averages
about $35 per month, so for an extra $10 you can get a dedicated connection
with lots more speed. Startup costs, which often include an onsite technician to
configure the service for you, run anywhere from $50 to $100.
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What's the Catch?
A ccessing the Internet via cable modem isn’t with-
out problems. Although the cable companies are
used to proriding dedicated access for cable television,
most of them have no experience in being Internet ser-
vice providers. This has left many early adopters around
the country very frustrated. If you’re used to dealing
with a small, local dial-up Internet provider for your
service, you’ll notice a difference if you move to a cable
modem. The cable companies are much larger than
most ISPs, and slow to respond to customer needs. They
are learning very quickly that just because they have the
technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it or
how to tel l you how to use it. Support problems plague
many cable modem users around the country, as frus-
trated customers find their new toy doesn’t work the
way it should.
Can I Get It?
W ith both cable modems and DSL connections,
availability is the big question. For cable
modems, call your local cable company or go to its Web
site, where you’ll often find a search function to find out
if cable modem service is available in your area. TWo of
the largest cable modem service providers are @Home
(http://www.home.net) and RoadRunner (http:/Avww
.rr.com/rdrun). For a list of cable companies that plan
to proride cable modem service go to http://www.cable-
modemsxom/proriders.shtml.
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speed
speed!
Digital
Cable Has
Subscriber Line
Cable Has Competition
What Is It?
T he other currently popular method of
high-speed Internet access, DSL, is
available from your telephone company. Just
like the cable modem that shares your cable
with the TVs in your house, DSL shares your
phone line with your telephone(s) . Voice
conversation only takes up a small portion of
modern telephone lines, leaving a large part
of the available bandwidth unused. DSL takes
advantage of this unused bandwidth by split-
ting it off and using it for digital data trans-
mission, or more specifically, Internet access.
The nice part about it is that you don’t need
to run a separate phone line into your house,
and you can use your DSL Internet access
while you’re talking on the telephone. Many
different acronyms describe different flavors
of DSL technology (ADSL, HDSL, and SDSL),
so often people refer to it as just *DSL
(techies tend to use the letter # as a variable
that stands for just about anything) .
How Fast Is It?
T his type of service offers a huge speed increase over analog
modem connections. DSL comes in tiered speed increments,
but even at the lowest level, download speeds are at least six times
faster than analog modems. Connections are also dedicated,
which is more of a convenience than most people realize. With an
analog modem, a quick check of your email requires that you wait
through the whole dial-in process, praying to the busy-signal gods
until you finally get on and see what’s shown up in your mailbox.
With dedicated access, there’s no dial-up time and no busy signals.
You tell your service to check, and seconds later you’ve got mail.
In a world where time is so precious, that can mean a lot.
What’s the Catch?
E ven if you live in a city where DSL is available, it may not be avail-
able at your home. This technology hinges on your distance from
the central telephone office. In most places, the maximum distance you
can be from the phone company’s central office and still qualify for a
DSL connection is 18,000 feet. That’s 18,000 feet of wire, mind you,
which probably doesn’t take a direct route. Wire tends to get wrapped
back and forth on its way from the central office to your house, so you
probably need to be even closer than that for it to work. Also — even if
you are within that 18,000-foot limit — the further you are from the
office, the slower your maximum connection will be. The signal
degrades as it travels, and your speeds decrease right along with it.
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What Do You Need and What Will It Cost?
T he cost of DSL varies depending on the speeds you want and the companies involved.
Basic DSL packages, which start with download speeds of 384 Kbps and upload speeds of
128 Kbps (this can go all the way to 1500 Kbps download and 384 Kbps upload), range any-
where from $29 to $ 1 50, depending on the speed level you want. Unlike the cable modem, DSL
service is not typically billed as an all-in-one package. It’s more like your analog modem
access, in that you buy the DSL service as a feature from your telephone company, and then
you need Internet access on top of that. Many phone companies, of course, offer Internet
access as an additional feature, but be aware that the published cost of the line may not include
Internet access. The upside? You get the flexibility of choosing an Internet service provider that
suits your needs — you’re not tied to one provider, as with a cable modem.
Startup costs are typically higher with DSL, since the pricing plans generally do not
include the cost of the modem. Some phone companies will lease you the DSL modem,
which is a nice option, but most require you to purchase it outright. The initial fees, which
include onsite setup and the cost of die hardware, usually fall into the range of $300 to $500.
However, many companies are offering substantial discounts in exchange for one- or two-
year service contracts.
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Can I Get It?
W ith DSL, you have more choices,
but the place to start is by con-
tacting your local phone company, either
over the phone or on its Web site, to find
out if DSL is available at your home —
remember the short-distance rule. If
you’re not within a few miles of a prop-
erly equipped switching station, you’re
out of luck. You can also check out Dale
Sorenson’s Mac-friendly DSL list at
http://www.sorenson-usa.com/dsl-mac
.html for some other companies to check
out. This list also includes several DSL
ISPs (how’s that for a bunch of three
letter acronyms?).
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So Which Should I Get?
F or most people, the decision is easy to make: Take what you can
e
get and like it! Most areas currently only have one type of high-
speed access available, and many areas still have none. Nevertheless,
if you are lucky enough to be in the position of choosing, consider
these points before settling on a solution. We've provided a checklist
for your convenience. Read through the items and select cable or DSL.
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Cable Q
DSL
Bandwidth Crowding
Although cable and DSL are very similar, there are some inherent dif-
ferences in network organization. With cable, everyone in your local
neighborhood shares the bandwidth available to you. With DSL, the
circuit you buy links you directly to your ISP. This may not seem like
a big deal, but as more and more people get online, it’s possible the
cable network will slow down, even though the numbers say it’s faster.
This could be an issue for you, although the cable companies could
restructure their networks on the fly by making the groups smaller
and smaller (thereby limiting the number of people with whom you
must share your bandwidth). Check with other people in your area
using either service and get their opinions. Real-world customer
testimonials are worth far more than the flyers you get from ISPs.
] Cable Q
DSL
Startup Costs
With the rapid changes in technology today, you may find you want to
change services often. If you’ve got hundreds of dollars invested in
modems and startup costs, or if you’re tied to a two-year service con-
tract, making that move isn’t all that easy. Leasing equipment from
your ISP protects you against ending up owning a piece of outdated
technology (you know, like one of those antique computers from
1995!). As technology changes, you’ll want to keep pace with it, and
that requires making constant changes.
Hj Cable | |
DSL
Reliability
Consider service uptime and your reliance on Internet access. Both
cable and DSL offer dedicated access, which means your computer is
always online. However, cable and telephone networks are certainly
not immune to service outages, so consider the past reliability of your
regular service before making a decision. If your cable service goes
out a few times a month, but the telephone’s been up and running
solidly for years, factor that into your decision-making process.
] Cable
DSL
Reality Check
Lastly, make sure you realize with whom you’re dealing here. Wide-
spread dedicated Internet access is something new for everyone, after
all, and the corporate infrastructure of your ISP can make a difference
in the quality of your experience. While cable companies focus on
dedicated access, telephone companies do not. Consider this: If every-
one turned on their TV at the same time, there wouldn’t be any prob-
lems. However, if everyone picked up their telephone at the same time
to make an outgoing call, only about 40 percent of us would actually
succeed — the rest would get stuck wading through all-too-familiar
“all circuits are busy” messages.
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Cacheless Access
E very major Web browser out there sup-
ports a disk cache. As your computer
downloads Web pages for you to view, it saves
the downloaded data to your hard disk. The
next time you visit the same page, your system
checks to see if you have the files on the hard
disk before downloading them again. This
makes perfect sense when you’re connecting
with an analog modem, and it speeds up the
process. However, with high-speed connec-
tions (including cable, DSL, or the T1 at your
office), it’s often faster to turn the disk cache
off and just let the computer download the
data to memory. Because it doesn’t have to
save information to the hard disk, Web surfing
can go much faster. We’ll show you how to
turn off the disk cache in Internet Explorer
and Netscape Navigator.
IF YOU’RE USING A BROWSER from that
company, you can turn off the cache by going to
the Preferences panel, selecting Advanced
(under the Web Browser item on the left), and
entering 0 in the Size field.
NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR’S CACHE CONTROL is
similar to Internet Explorer’s. Open the
Preferences panel and select Cache (under the
Advanced item on the left), then enter 0 in the
Disk Cache field. Click OK to finish.
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speed!
speed!
How to Get It
O nce you’ve decided which way to go, the
setup procedures for both services are sim-
ilar and relatively straightforward. First, call your
cable or telephone company and set up an
appointment. The service technician should arrive
with all you’ll need to get set up and running.
Thankfully, most Macs out there won’t require
any additional hardware to access this service
(other than the modem for the connection). Both
cable and DSL modems connect to your Mac’s
lOBaseT Ethernet interface (the one that looks like
a wide phone jack) . Some older Macs with built-in
Ethernet require an adapter to make this work
properly. If you have a Mac that lacks Ethernet
ports, many options (such as PCI or NuBus cards)
from third-party manufacturers can get you up to
speed. Once you’ve got a lOBaseT Ethernet inter-
face available on your Macintosh, setup is fairly
simple. In most instances, the technician will get
you up and running quickly.
Like all computers on the Internet, your Mac
gets assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) address.
This address is unique to your computer and is
required to participate in any traffic over the Inter-
net. There are two ways to obtain an IP address.
Some services assign static, permanent IP address-
es to each customer at the time of setup. If this is
the case, you’ll insert a series of numbers and
addresses into your TCP/IP control panel when
you set things up. As long as your cable company
doesn’t change any of these addresses, you’re all
set. Other companies set up a server to assign IP
information as customers turn on their computers.
This is done via Dynamic Host Configuration Pro-
tocol (DHCP). This makes things easier on the
user — you don’t have to remember any numbers.
All you do is set your TCP/IP control panel to
obtain its settings from DHCP, and you’re done
(see “Setting Your TCP/IP Control Panel” for
details). If your ISP decides it needs to change an
address, all it has to do is enter that information
into the DHCP server on its end.
M ac OS 8.5.x has a very specific problem
with DHCP servers, and we highly rec-
ommend that you upgrade to Mac OS 8.6 if you
use DHCP for Internet access. Previous system
versions don’t have this problem, so users of 8.0
or 0.1 (or 7.x, for that matter) don't have to worry.
Once you’ve connected the modem from
your Mac’s Ethernet port to the jack on the wall,
and you’ve got your TCP/IP settings right,
you're good to go. Fire up your favorite Web
browser and go to town. If this is the first time
you’ve surfed on anything faster than an analog
modem, you're in for a real treat! Now all you
have to do is remember to get up from the com-
puter to eat and socialize with your family!
1
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Fou’ll configure your Mac for
which is part of the Mac OS.
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under Control Panels.
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the relevant information here such as your IP address and name server address
(this changes with each provider).
Step 3. Close the
TCP/IP control panel and
save the settings.
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headline news, stock quotes, sports scores and
a weather summary. You can collapse or expand
channels individually. Cool, except for the
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Tell it your ZIP code and My Netscape will serve
up local news-sort of. I’m treated to news from
San Francisco, which is about 350 miles from
my home. If you live in a big city, however, you
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We were going to complain about the page’s
bland mint-and-white color scheme, but Netscape
read our minds and added a “customize your col-
ors” option. You can pick custom colors or
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Extensive personalization options allow you to
add or remove information from the home page:
you might remove the horoscopes and sports
scores in favor of a local event listing and calcu-
lator. Then tell It what types of headlines you want
| to see and which stocks you want to track.
Market watchers will enjoy the My Portfolio chan-
nel. Tell it what stocks you own and how many
shares, then My Netscape will show your daily
profit or loss. Nosy shoulder-surfers will be
astounded by your net worth. A few clicks away,
| Netscape provides real-time stock quotes.
The search window
provides centralized
access to many of
the major search
engines. Some
favorites, however,
like Hotbot, AltaVista
and Yahoo, are con-
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The calendar function allows you to
track appointments, birthdays, and
reminders. You can also have it
automatically list events that match
your interests, such as sports,
movies, concerts, and trade shows.
A click switches the small full-
month window to a fult-screen, by-
| the-hour appointment scheduler.
The “bookmarks" channel
allows you to import up to
100 bookmarks from your
Web browser to the My
Netscape page. You can then
access those bookmarks
from any computer on the
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function for road warriors.
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Your home page is where you hang your hat— and many of us choose to call one of the myr-
iad "portals" home because they're convenient, centralized starting points. Among your choic-
es are Snap!, Go, GoTo and other sites with short, catchy names. Of course, the browser mak-
ers would prefer you stuck with their portal.
Netscape’s portal is called My Netscape — the URL is (rather predictably)
http;//my.netscape.com. Microsoft's portal, whose charming six-syllable name, "MSN.com
Home", doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, is at http://home.microsoft.com.
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shares the name of its all-but-forgotten, Win-
dows-only online service.
Personalize the page ’til you drop: you can
choose from an impressive mix of news,
weather, and sports sources, as well as stocks,
travel sites, media clips, and other goodies.
There’s only minimal control over the page
layout, though.
The Web Directory provides daily site picks, ^
access to search tools (again, some of the
best are absent. Why is HotBot, http://www
.hotbot.com, always the odd man out?), and
a browsable directory.
Like My Netscape, you can add your favorite
Web links to your MSN.com home page. This
works especially well if you like only four Web
sites, because that’s all it will let you add.
The site does offer a lot of great content, from 1
CNET and Wired, Forbes and Fortune, TV Guide
and MTV. Too bad there’s no way to organize it.
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MSN.com Home offers a lot of pertinent infor-
mation— you can check your free Web-based
email account, see the local weather report,
and find Web sites— but it doesn’t organize it
all as well as My Netscape can.
Watch out— along with the good stuff, the portal is
laden with ads for Microsoft products, news about
Microsoft products, and articles about Microsoft
software. Yes, it’s what you would expect, but
enough is enough.
Microsoft also provides a site just for Mac users:
Microsoft Mactopia, at http://www.microsoft.
com/mac/. It features Mac-related news head-
lines from Apple, CNET, TidBITS, and other
sources— some fresh, some stale. See this
month’s Editor’s Note.
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|
INTERNET EXPLORER I COMMUNICATOR
What would a browser be without email? Communicator's
built-in client is called Messenger; Microsoft's email tool is
called Outlook Express and is a separate program from
Explorer. We looked at three key features of each.
Both programs do a marvelous job of showing and
sending HTML email, replete with graphics, hyperlinks and
fonts. Remember, though, that text-only email is not dead.
There are still many email programs that can't show email
encoded with HTML, so be careful not to send HTML email
unless you know the recipient uses a compatible mail client.
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DIGITAL SIGNATURES
ft's easy to keep love letters and business
notes secret using Messenger, which is inte-
grated with Verisign’s digital certificate sys-
tem. Shell out a mere $10 a year for your own
certificate and you can send encrypted email
to users of compatible software. (Messenger
decrypts the mail for valid recipients, too.)
RETURN RECEIPT
When it absolutely, positively must get there,
Netscape gives you a return receipt. By
enabling this handy feature when you send an
email, you’ll be informed when the message
is delivered to the recipient’s mail server. If
the recipient uses a compatible mail program,
you can also be notified when the recipient
actually views the message.
POWERFUL SEARCH
If you get a lot of mail, finding a particular
message amongst hundreds (or thousands!) of
disorganized missives can be a daunting task.
Outlook Express’s find function is good, but
Communicator’s is better. It lets you perform
complex searches, seeking out particular mes-
sage headers, body text, or date.
OUTLOOK EXPRESS
KILLER FILTERS
Netscape’s Messenger has mail filters, too, but
OE’s pulls out all the stops. The program auto-
matically forwards or replies to messages meet-
ing certain criteria. It can process file attach-
ments or add the message’s sender to your con-
tact list. Like Messenger, Outlook Express is also
a newsgroup reader—unlike Messenger, you
can apply rules to newsgroup posts.
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Outlook Express users who also ues Microsoft Office 98, get
a bonus: on-the-fly epel I check. This elqant fea true, borrowed
from Word, checks your mail for tpyos as you writee ,
underlining q guestionable words.
INTEGRATION WITH OFFICE 98
Outlook Express users, who also use Microsoft
Office 98, get a bonus: on-the-fly spell check.
This elegant feature, borrowed from Word,
checks your mail for typos as you write by
underlining questionable words. You can also
access your Outlook Express contacts list from
other Microsoft applications, and even do
email merges.
ITS
SCRIPTABLE
Kudos go to
Microsoft for
integrating
AppleScript into
Outlook Express.
Folks can extend
the capabilities
of the program
by writing
scripts. These
handy add-ons
can be used to
archive your email, report spam, quickly
unsubscribe you from a tiresome mailing list,
and more. A bevy of ready-to-use scripts are
available at the Unofficial Outlook Express
Web page: http://www.macemail.com/oe
/pages/applescript.shtml.
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THE WINNER: Outlook Express. Besides the features listed above, OE supports multi-
ple email accounts, multiple signatures (handy if you need several ways to end your messages),
and the IMAP mail protocol (a great way to share one email account between two computers).
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So r your browser can proofread your email, mix drinks, and clean the cat's
litterbox? None of that matters if it can't show you a Web page, and
quickly. So round three of our little battle is devoted to speed. The ques-
tion: how fast could each browser download and display 30 Web pages?
We used both browsers to visit a vari-
ety of popular home pages, like ama-
zon.com, snap.com, and apple.com. To
be fair, we set the disk cache on both
browsers to 5MB and then emptied
them. No matter which browser you use,
some careful choices in the Preferences
window can keep things running at top
speeds. Choose Preferences
from either browser’s Edit
menu to get at it.
In Internet Explorer, judi-
cious choices in the Web
Content prefs panel can help
speed things along at the
expense of multimedia sexi-
ness. For instance, you can
choose whether pictures
should be displayed “faster”
or “better” — that is, whether
IE should sacrifice image
quality for speed. Go ahead,
make the sacrifice. (You can
also disable images entirely.)
IE also lets you disable video,
sound, and plug-ins, which
jvill speed some sites up
considerably. You can
even disable Java in
IE’s Java preferences
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those fat applets.
In Communicator, similar prefer-
ences are in the Advanced prefs panel —
again, disabling Java and images will
speed up your surfing. (For our tests,
we opted for the full multimedia experi-
ence in both browsers: pictures, sounds,
Java — we wanted it all.)
Finally, for speed boosts in both
browsers, you should keep your cache at
a minimum of 4MB, although bigger is
better — to a point. Don’t waste drive
space on more than 10MB of cache.
So, how did the browsers fare? Our
testing was done on one computer, a
PowerMac 7200. We surfed at different
times of the day using our beloved cable
modem — the ISP was Northcoast Inter-
net, based in Eureka, California. For
Netscape Communicator, the total time
to download and display 30 Web pages
was 7 minutes and 15 seconds. IE fin-
ished the race at a slug’s pace of 1 1 min-
utes and 15 seconds. There’s four min-
utes of life that could have been better
spent. Using the browsers back to back,
the speed difference is palpable — one
thinks twice before clicking on a link in
IE, wondering if it will be worth the wait.
WEB SITES TESTED:
www.abc.com
www.humboldt.edu
www.altavista.com
www.ibm.com
www.amazon.com
www.landsend.com
www.aol.com
www.macaddict.com
www.apple.com
www.marketwatch.com
www.butterball.com
www.microsoft.com
www.cbs.com
www.mtv.com
www.cnet.com
www.nbc.com
www.ctw.org
www.netscape.com
www.deja.com
www.pbs.org
www.ebay.com
www.remarq.com
www.eff.org
www.shockrave.com
www.excite.com
www.snap.com
www.go.com
www.swatch.com
www.hotbot.com
www.webmonkey.com
OTHER CONTENDERS |
I nternet Explorer and Netscape Communicator may be
the best-known browsers, but they aren’t your only
choices. A variety of flyweight contenders are waiting in the
wings, hoping to spar with the big boys. Try out these
browsers if your Mac doesn’t have enough RAM or disk
space to run the Big Two, or if you simply think different.
ICAB
The new kid in
town is iCab, a
sweet little brows-
er from Germany.
iCab doesn’t have the hefty system requirements of the big
boys’ browsers. Versions are available for PowerPC and
68K Macs — as long as you have System 7.5 or above and
4MB of free RAM, you’re good to go.
It’s very fast, and surprisingly feature-laden, given its
svelte size. It supports HTML 4, cookies and cookie filter-
ing, frames and bookmarks, and a lot of other features you
might not expect in such a tiny browser. The PowerPC ver-
sion supports Java, but the 68K version does not. The pro-
gram is still in beta— the current version doesn’t yet support
JavaScript or Cascading Style Sheets Level 2, although
those features are planned.
During the beta test period, iCab is free. Afterwards, the
full version will cost $29. A free “lite” version will also be
available. Download iCab at http://www.icab.de/.
LYNX
Lynx doesn’t
do graphics. At all.
This accounts for
its small memory
and disk space
needs: it fits on a
floppy disk and
only needs one megabyte of free RAM. Lynx may not be
the prettiest browser, but it will get your aging PowerBook
on the Web without complaints.
Not having to load graphics from Web servers makes
browsing the Web with Lynx very fast, even over a slow
modem. Lynx loads quickly and displays pages quickly, it
doesn’t have the overhead of code to show graphics or
Java applets. It doesn’t play MIDI music, have a built-in
HTML editor, or support plug-ins.
It does what’s important, though: Lynx’s features
include bookmarks, frames, forms, cookies, proxies, and
security for handling credit card transactions. MacLynx is
free: you can download it from http.Y/www.lirmm
.fr/ — gutkneco/maclynx/.
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Communicator’s simple inter-
face is appealing. The buttons
are in places that make sense,
and don’t eat up too much
valuable surfing space. Com-
pare that with Explorer’s litany
of buttons and tabs, along with
the panels that appear and
disappear. You can call us
purists, but a simpler interface
is a better interface, and Com-
municator has it.
SMARTUPDATE
Netscape makes upgrades painless with SmartUpdate.
When a new version of Communicator is released,
SmartUpdate will notify you, then (with your permission)
fetch and install the patch. You won’t have to wait for
eons while downloading the new version— SmartUpdate
only downloads the new parts of the program. It works
with plug-ins, too.
SMART BROWSING
Netscape Communicator’s “What’s Related” but-
ton searches out sites that are similar to the Web
page you’re currently looking at. You can use it
as a research tool, or simply as a fun way to
learn about sites that might interest you. Once
you’ve found one site of interest, Smart Browsing
can be a fast way to find related sites without
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form-filling functions.
FORMS AUTOFILL
What a time-saver: feed IE your name,
address, phone number and other personal
information once. Then, the next time a Web
site presents a daunting form full of questions,
one click will instantly fill it out.
INSTALLER
Installing IE is so easy we just had to mention it.
There’s no fussy installer, and no need to
reboot. Instead, when you download IE, you get
a virtual “SMI” disk. Just drag a folder from it to
your hard drive, and you’re done. IE’s installer is
much smaller than Netscape’s, in part because
it’s not weighted with unnecessary add-ons like
AOL Instant Messenger and Internet Config.
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You’ve found a great Web page with a mother-
load of outbound links. Now what? Try using
IE’s Page Holder feature, which keeps the
links page on screen. Linked pages appear in
another panel to the side, but the page of links
never disappears. It’s so handy.
Referee's Decision
The winner is Netscape Com-
municator; its elegant interface and
relative speed give
it the edge against
Internet Explorer.
At least, for now.
Microsoft is al-
ready beta-testing the Windows
version of Internet Explorer 5. If the
Mac version has parity (a big if),
we can look forward to more auto-
mated features, a “related links”
function, a built-in streaming audio
player, and “Web accessories" to
customize the interface.
Version 5 of Communicator
hasn’t been announced yet. But it
will be the first major release since
Netscape made the browser’s
source code available to the public
(at http://www.moziIla.org). Who
knows? Communicator version 5
may include a variety of fascinating
additions developed by the Internet
community — the users themselves.
Kevin Savetz (savetz@north-
coast.com) writes about
Macs and the Internet for
Computer Shopper and other
magazines. An avid collector
of vintage computers, Kevin
is as likely to be playing with
an Atari 800 or Timex-Sin-
clair as with his Mac.
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SUMANA0I0399
BY THE MACADDICT STAFF ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW SKWISH
iMacAddict
40 MacADDICT SEPT/99
Ithough the Internet has made many folks rich beyond
their wildest computer-generated dreams, we realize
there are still quite a few Mac addicts who must scram-
ble for the change to buy a mere packet of beef season-
ings. We find this situation intolerable. As a service to the many millions
who have yet to make millions by going public with overvalued Web
sites, we've compiled our not-quite-annual MacAddict Free-for-AII.
Inspired by our own lack of funds, we scrounged the Web for free
goods and services ranging from guitar picks to Bibles to complimenta-
ry wake-up calls. Unfortunately, we only have space to list a small sam-
ple of the samples freely available on the Web. And we fear that by the
time you read this, many of these offers may no longer be available,
due to the daily evolution of most Web sites. If you can't get your
hands on our Web-based booty (oh, behave!), fear not. We'll give you
a list of cool sites that will have you hauling in the free stuff in no time.
Ricky Martin Photos
Aaaahhh! It’s a Riiicky Marrrtiiin fan site!!!
Stop by the official Ricky Martin Web site for
all the news, history, and musical accom-
plishments of the former Menudo member
turned modern-day superstar, or just stare
longingly at the free photos you’ll get if you
join the fan club.
Strobe Light
http://www.operationstrobelight.com
Spread the word and get a free strobe light via
Operation Strobe Light and the Help Us Help
You nonprofit organization. The idea is to use
your free strobe light to show the way to
emergency response personnel in the event
of an emergency. The catch here is that a
volunteer will come out to your house to give
you the light and provide you with other
potentially life-saving information.
Wake-Up Calls
http://www.mrwakeup.com
Awake to the sweet sound
of your own voice with
Mr. Wake-up’s free
reminder service.
You can schedule
reminders via the
Web site and it’ll
either email you or call
you over the phone with your own prerecord-
ed voice message. Every call and reminder
includes your local time, date, and weather, but
you can also sign up for daily doses of your
horoscope, local news, entertainment listings,
and motivational affirmations.
Buttons
http://members.aQl.com/buttonlady/index.html
Here’s your chance to show some attitude!
The Button Lady offers wearable attitudes in
a variety of sayings for free. Choose from an
assortment of buttons including these gems:
“If you don’t like my attitude, quit talking to
me!”, “If I promise to miss you, will you
please go away???”, and “Where the hell was
I last night?”.
Resume Help
http://www.bakosgroup.com
Bankos is a career management mumbo-
jumbo type of organization that probably
efore you sign up for truck-
loads of glittering no-cost
samples and services, you
should be aware of their hid-
den hazards. So break out your magni-
fying glass— we’ve got a few words of
wisdom to impart.
■ Shipping fees can sometimes cost
more than the product is worth. If that’s
the case, don’t bother.
■ Search for free stuff using an alterna-
tive email account you can easily can-
cel when you start getting swamped
with spam.
■ Beware the bait-and-switch offer that
gives you a “free” gift, subscription, or
service you have to either cancel or
pay for later.
■ Don’t sign up for free stuff if you easily
succumb to junk mail rage.
■ Don’t be a sellout. Some companies
exchange free stuff for dirt on your
friends so they can include people on
their mailing lists and send them piles
of unwanted product information.
Don’t do it.
■ Some products may take weeks to
arrive. Some may not arrive at all. If you
really need that sample roll of Charmin
right away, we suggest you just go out
and buy it.
/ > v m ow that You've got the itch for
: freebies, give it a good scratch
by checking out the following
Web portals. We’ve picked the
top five most likely to link you to every
type of giveaway, contest, or coupon on
the Net.
1. Totally Free Stuff
(http://www.totallyfreestuff.com)
2 . Free Site X
(http://www.freesitex.com)
3 . No Junk Free Stuff
(http ://www,nojunkfree. com)
4 - FreeShop
(http://www.freeshop.com)
5 . Free-Stuff
(http://www.free-stuff.com)
SEPT/99 MacADDICT 41
free!
free!
e get tots of letters from
readers who believe that
so me re m ote part of our job
description includes finding
dates for them. Yeah, right. Cupid we ain’t,
but we can offer Web links to free products
that should put you on the path to ending
your single status.
Get a Clue
What are the do’s and don’ts of dating? If
you’re new to the relationship realm, or
perhaps jumping back in the saddle, this
book may help. Get a copy of Straight from
the Heart, a $12.95 value, absolutely free
by visiting the Together Dating Web site
(http://www.togetherdating.com/guide-
book.htm). Armed with your literary criteria,
take the plunge and get a date!
Spring for Some Flowers
How? Try sending flowers— the virtual
(unscented) kind. You have richness in
your heart, but a hole in your pocketbook.
Not to worry.. .all you thrifty Romeos can
send your Juliets (and vice versa) a dozen
long-stemmed roses free. The Virtual
Florist (http://www.virtualflorist.com) offers a
variety of virtual floral arrangements, bal-
loons, greetings, personalized songs, and
more that you can send electronically to
the object of your affection. There’s even a
bouquet tailor-made for those of you who
are in the doghouse. If you find yourself
there, better reread your dating guidebook.
Brush for the Occasion
This is the all-important step to any suc-
cessful date — in a word, hygiene. Stock up
on free K|ri body wash and lotion
(http://womenslink.bristol-myers.ca/wlink-
canada/kerioffer2.html) just for the asking.
Or if body wash sounds too feminine for
you manly men, try a free bar of Bare
Botanicals soap (http://shop.holisticameri-
ca.com/ha/guest_book/gb_new.htm) or
splash on a sample of Stetson Country
Cologne (http://www,stetsoncountry
.com/sweeps/form Jndex.html). For you
less mature types, complimentary Nick-
elodeon and Rugrats toothbrushes are
available from Oral B (http://www.oralb.com
/pro/samples/index, htm) .
Dress for the Occasion
You’re hip on dating tips, you’ve scored a
date, you sent flowers— so what’s next?
How about upping your cool quotient?
Rebuild California (http://www.rebuildca
.org/freebies.htm) is offering free pairs of
sunglasses. Score a pair today!
You Gotta Eat
If dinner out is beyond your financial
scope, how about dinner in? Cook up
some French couscous from Royal
Duchess (http://www.royalduchess.com
/sample. html). Afterward, serve a cup of
fresh-brewed coffee with chocolate-fla-
vored cream provided by International
Mixes (http://www.mochamagic.com/Or-
der.html). We recommend you save your
Fesperman’s Beef Jerky (http;//www
. onejerky com/sample. htm) for a night
with the boys.
Care for a Nightcap?
If you got this far, we applaud you (cheap-
skate!). Continuing with your night of free
festivities, it’s time to create a little mood
music. Just slap in your “MTV’s Fight for
Your Rights” CD (http://mtv.com/mtvAubes-
can/fight4_right/ffyrcd) and let the music
move ya. We won’t backseat-drive the rest
of your date, but we'll give you links to a
couple of necessary precautions — Trojan
Condoms (http://www.loveandsex.com
/sample/index.html?stuff=/trojan/product)
and Durex Condoms (http://www.durex
.com/iounge/usa/free.htm!) also provide
free samples.
Wait a Minute!
Before you commit, make sure you’re
compatible. Is your date a Mac addict? If
not, convince your loved one to switch
teams by getting him or her a magazine
and CD for free (http://www.macaddict.com
for a trial subscription). f Nuff said.
offers really useful things to really corporate
people. It’s dull as hell, but if you fax Bankos
your resume or copy and paste it to a form on
the Web page, Bankos calls and gives you a
free critique. The catch is that Banko feeds you
into its head-hunting database, so prospective
employers might start offering you large
amounts of money to do what you said you
wanted to do on your resume. Doesn’t sound
so bad to us.
T-Shirt
http://www.petrix.com/shirt/items.htm
Tired of companies ripping
the shirt right off
your back? Here’s
a company willing
to put one right
back on yours. The T-
Shirt Outlet will send you
a free T-shirt of your
choice from its huge
stockpile. The designs change constantly —
but the offer doesn’t.
Guitar Pick
http://www.bigrockeng.com/bigrock.htm
Calling all you guitar gods and guitar god
wannabes! Head to Big Rock Engineering and
pick up its latest F-l Lead Model flat pick for
free. Select your gauge and break out your
axe. . .or your air guitar. Guitar picks also make
great fingernail cleaners, screwdrivers, and
percussion sounds in your vacuum cleaner —
just in case you wanted to know.
Spade L Ranch Seasonings
http://www.spadelranch.com
Now here's a freebie that’s good for the rest of
summer — all the way through those Labor
Day barbecues. It’s a free 1.5-ounce sample of
42 MacADDICT SEPT/99
Spade L Ranch Beef Marinade and Seasoning,
and it’s yours for a mere double-stamped,
self-addressed envelope. The site also
includes a wealth of recipes for your season-
ing sample, including “good” ribs. Mmm,
mmm!
Eyeglass Cleaning Cloth
http://www.intersights.Gom/contest. htm
For those of us who wear eyeglasses — and we
know that many of you have ruined your eyes
by sitting too close to the television — Inter-
sights is offering a free eyeglass cleaning cloth
made of specially treated microfibers. Just fill
out a simple online form and it’s yours.
Credit Report
http://www.consumerinfo.com
Credit reports are cool. You get to see all the
times you missed payments, bounced checks,
or went bankrupt, plus you can take a look at
all your aliases. The catch here is that you also
get signed up for a (cancellable) membership
to the CreditCheck Monitoring Service, which
after the first 30 days will run you $60 a year.
You also have to give up a whole lot of per-
sonal info, including your birth date, social
security number, and a credit card number.
Photo Scanning Service
http://hometown.aol.com/mkozanevic/scan.html
Just mail Sara Kyde your favorite pics and
she’ll scan them in at resolutions up to 1200
dots per inch, then email them back to you —
absolutely free. She promises a quick turn
around and hasn’t yet set any limits on the
number of photos you can send. Sounds a lit-
tle freaky, so hang onto the negatives.
Honduran Coffee
http://www.hondurom.com/free
At the Honduras Net online
mall, you can order all
manner of common Cen-
tral American goodies —
cigars, woodcrafts,
art, coffee, and the
like. To entice you
further, the site offers
a free sample of 100
percent pure Hon-
duran coffee. The bad
news is that in this
case free isn’t really free. Honduras Net wants
$2.99 for shipping and handling, and for this
it wants a credit card.
CGI and Perl Scripts
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts
Adding a simple form to your Web site should
be...uh, simple. It’s not. Creating a little series
of slots where users can fill in the blanks and
send info back to you requires genuine script-
ing capability. Luckily, places like Matt’s Script
Archive give novice site builders the code
required to create guest books, simple
searches, counters, and Web discussion
boards — all free.
Stamped Stoplik
http://www.stoplick.com/offer.html
As the Web site says — perhaps a bit dramati-
cally — you can use Stampe’s Stoplik to save
your dog from a death sentence caused by
overlicking a wound that won’t heal. Get your
free sample of this healing product by sending
in a picture of your dog’s wound, its history,
and the products you’ve tried.
The New Testament
http://home1.gte.net/brm1/bible.htm
The best-selling book
of all time can be
yours free if you
can meet the ^
Bible Read-
ing Ministry’s
requirements: S
You must not
already own a
copy of the Bible,
you must be willing to
read your free copy, and you must be request-
ing it for yourself. Who’s going to know if you
lie? Do you even need to ask?
Free Stickers
http://www.homewrecker.com
If you have “no moral values whatsoever” then
you’ll probably feel more comfortable sport-
ing free stickers from Homewrecker, a bad-
ass San Francisco-based clothing company,
than toting around a bible. All you have to do
is send them a self-addressed, stamped enve-
lope along with all the lurid details of a per-
sonal homewrecking incident. Perfect for the
Jerry Springer Generation.
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ven though free Web-based email
accounts are about as hard to find
on the Net as porn, you should
i take time to find an account that
truly lets you express yourself. To help you
narrow the search, we’ve compiled this list
of mail services and judged them on their
personalities. If you find you’re not compati-
ble with any of our offerings, bust on over to
the Free Email Address Directory (http://
www.emailaddresses.com) and find the
email account that screams you!
1. Yahoo Mail
(http://www.mail.yahoo.com)
2 . Hotmail
(http://www.hotmaii.com)
3 . ChickMaif
(http://www.chickmaij.com)
4 - Mac-Email
(http://www.mac-email.com)
5 - MacBox
(http://www.macbox.com)
6 . Depeche Mode Mai!
(http://www.depechemodemail.com)
7- Star Trek Mail
(http://www.startrekmail.com)
8 . ImagineMai!
(http;//www. i m agi n emai l .co m)
1. The girl/guy next door.
2 - The secretly evil girl/guy next door.
3 . “Girls that don’t fake it.”
4 - PC users— not!
5 - Mac purists who insist their email run off
the Mac OS X server.
8. Depressed 1980s fanatics.
7 - Boys who have never dated an actual girl
8 . Smart people who read magazines pub-
lished by Imagine (like MacAddict).
very Web site needs a home, but
why pay rent when you can pop
a squat for free? Check out the
I 'following Web hosting services
for great deals on some prime locations:
1- GeoCities (http://www.geocities.com)
2 . Tripod (http://www.tripod.com)
3. Xoom (http://xoom.com/home)
4 - AngelFire (http://www.angelfire.com)
5 . MacRutes (http://macrules.com)
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COOL TOOL #1
GETIilEB 1.0
AUTHOR: Shiba TYPE: Shareware PRICE: $15
URL: http://www.nnet.ne.jp/-shiba/en/GetWeb.html
My cable modem is working well but I fear that day when the
Internet crashes and I am without all of my precious sites. I’ve
begun downloading entire sites and archiving them on CD-R with
GetWeb. This utility automatically downloads sites — html files,
graphics, and all — and follows links to create a complete archive.
GetWeb also lets me manage those sites in various lists. Best of all,
GetWeb can be set to download pages at scheduled times.
44 MacADDlCT SEPT/99
COOL TOOL #5
INTELLINEWS 1.1.1
AUTHOR: Paul Scandariato, Intelli Innovations TYPE: Shareware
PRICE: $15 URL: http://www.intellisw.com
Just when I thought that ennui would take me here in my bunker
intern News comes to tne rescue.
IntelliNews offers me a full range
of customized Internet-related
info including basic research
tools, stock portfolio tracking,
weather reports (I hope that UPS
guy gets rained on), horo-
scopes, and assistants for set-
ting things up correctly. Win-
dows can be made to act like
regular Mac windows or it can
float on top of other windows — a real convenience for my line of work
and there’s even an online quoting feature that lets me draw inspira-
tion over and over again from someone else’s words (some call it pla-
giarism, but 1 call it enlightenment).
COOL TOOL #2
GO! l.D
AUTHOR: TFSP Systems TYPE: WhateverWare
PRICE: Whatever you think it’s worth
URL: http://members.aol.com/afljoeys/go
This may be the only concept from Windows that is worth
saving. The teeny Go! application (which weighs in at under
250K, saving me valuable drive space) also saves keystrokes
and mouse clicks by putting up a small window with an editable
text box and a single button labeled Go! When I enter an URL,
Go! hands it off to the most appropriate application on my Mac
as set by Internet Config. I figure that I’m saving 17 minutes
each day; time 111 need later to overhaul my Ditch Witch.
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COOL TOOL #3
TEXTSOAP 2.D.1
AUTHOR: Mark Munz TYPE: Shareware PRICE: $20
URL: http://www.unmarked.com
I swore to Brent that if he ever sent me another novella
pasted into an email message, l ! d personally shove it down his
throat. Well, the welded door prevented me from following
through on that threat when his second draft of Grabanalios
appeared in my in box, so I turned to textSOAP instead. No
sense in getting the police involved. textSOAP takes those
troublesome text files and strips out extraneous tabs, returns,
form feeds, reply characters, and so on that make dealing with
garbled text files such a pain. It works with AppleScript, sup-
ports customized cleaners, and even has BBEdit tool palettes.
COOL TOOL #4
HTTPRESUME 1-0
AUTHOR: Raj Bains TYPE: Freeware PRICE: Free
URL: http://www.jps, net/bai ns/
After I was stymied In my attempts to download the Austin Pow-
ers trailer by broken server connections, I nearly despaired, ready
to open the steel doors and breathe that loathsome fresh air again.
Then I found HttpResume 1 .0 and all was saved. HttpResume lets
me pick up my http downloads where they were broken by dropped
server connections or by a crash— but that's happening less and
now, thank goodness. For now, this utility suits my download
needs quite nicely, and if it fails, well, there is another: ReZoom from
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COOL TOOL
MACTICKER 1-1.3
AUTHOR: Galleon Software TYPE: Shareware PRICE: S25
URL; http://www.gaHeon.com
It will be interesting to see which stations go out like
a poorly-wired Christmas tree, but now the trouble is finding
media to consume. Enter MacTuner. This widget lets you
tune to RealAudio and RealVideo feeds from around the
world. MacTuner
also features a
search engine (to
look for those spe-
cial stations) and a
place to save all of
those favorite sta-
tions. (See Mac-
Tuner review this
issue p67.)
Those entertainment utilities are all well and good, but with-
out constant information from the stock market, I’m in real trou-
ble. Fortunately, there's MacTicker. This utility tracks my stocks
for me, giving me detailed information about each stock and run-
ning a ticker of prices across the top of my monitor. That way, I
don’t miss vital information that will continue to fund my project.
MacTicker takes its information from six different sources (all
delayed— MacTicker doesn’t support real-time quotes), a real
bonus for those of us who expect to experience some... short-
age... of those sites, heh heh heh. MacTicker also supports alerts
to tell me
when a stock
has reached
a certain price
— vital, since
this is my pri-
mary source
of support— and it lets me skip to my
favorite trading sites in a jiffy.
/f00L TOOL #10
/ INF0P0PUP 1.5
AUTHOR: Harold Camp Gumbert, 111
TYPE: Shareware PRICE: $20
URL: http://www.campsoftware.com
This little RealBasic widget has become a lifesaver— I don’t seem to be
able to remember URLs (or words, for that matter) very well. It keeps a
bunch of URLs handy in a floating window, where I can access them by
selecting them, it also lets me know how many emails are currently waiting
to be downloaded so that I don’t waste my time launching an email client
if there are too few — or too many — emails to deal with downloading.
COOL TOOL #?
IPNETMONITOR
AUTHOR: Sustainable Softworks TYPE; Shareware PRICE: $20
URL: http://www.sustworks.com
I’ve said it to all of my friends: no one should hunker in their bunker
without IPNetMonitor. After all, until all of the supplies are laid in and
caches are built, that TCP/IP connection is my only hold on power. I don’t
like to think about that; it makes me nervous. Perhaps I need to shave.
IPNetMonitor can’t pull stubble, but it can monitor nearly every'aspect of
a TCP/IP connection, allowing me to ping remote servers, look up DNS
entries, do a traceroute on packets (to make sure that he isn’t intercept-
ing them), and otherwise monitor my TCP/IP connection. Yesterday, l
watched my Real-
Audio feed to look
for suspicious pat-
terns, but all I
found was hunger,
despair, and what
seemed to be the
face of George
Bush taunting me.
TOOL TOOL
MACTUNER 2-0.7
AUTHOR; Trexar Technologies TYPE: Shareware
PRICE: $22.95 URL: http://www.mactuner.com
COOL TOOL #a
NET-PRINT
AUTHOR: John Moe TYPE: Shareware PRICE: $10
URL: http://www93.pair.com/johnmoe
Although, strictly speaking, Net-Print
isn’t a network utility (it works wonders with
text clippings, for example), it is especially
useful for dealing with extracting and print-
ing text from Web pages. By merely select-
ing some text and then selecting an item
from the Net-Print menu, I am able to either
print the text or save it in any one of a num-
ber of text file formats— including the much-
hated Word text format (well, much hated by
me, at least). Net-Print prints headers that indicate where the
information came from (date and URL), and it even allows quick
printing of Zip disk labels from open Finder windows— perfect for
my temporary Web site archive.
Save Selection-.
Append Selection^
Clip Selection
Print Clippings™
Save dippings..
Append dippings™
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Page Setup™
Net-Print Settings™
Print lip label™
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Overall a good
investment.
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WHATEVER
A few
good features,
but generally
a waste of time
and money.
BLECH!
We hate to even
blotch our pages
with the thing.
Why Go Back To School When You Have All This Cool Mac Stuff?
Fakon 4.0
FUN & GAMES
COMPANY: MacSoft
CONTACT: 800-229-2714 or 425-398-3085,
http://www.wizworks.com/macsoft
PRICE: $69.99 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC 603e, 200MHz or faster,
System 7.5.3 or later, 32MB of RAM, 175MB of
free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM drive, 256K L2 cache,
joystick or flight stick
RECOMMENDED: G3, 96MB of RAM, 3D
hardware acceleration
J ust when the Macintosh combat flight
simulator market is growing stale,
Falcon 4.0 flies onto the scene. Four
years in the making, Falcon 4.0 sets a new
standard for impressive visuals and realism.
The graphics, physics, and multitude of
functions achieve what the designers and
developers set out to do: simulate an F-l6.
The premise of Falcon 4.0 is simple.
Tensions in Korea have escalated to the
point of war, and you’re responsible for dis-
pensing a healthy dose of justice. Your first
task, though, is to master the controls of
your F-16. Falcon 4.0’s learning curve
matches a 7G climb, and you’re going to
black out before you reach the end.
Thankfully, MacSoft ships several printed
training guides, including a 400-page Flight
Handbook , a map of Korea, and a chart
of well over
100 keyboard
commands.
You’ll greatly ap-
preciate these ref-
erences; it would be
a nightmare to learn
to fly the F-16 through
PDF files.
The training manuals pro-
gressively expose you to all of the
F-l6’s controls. The first section of the
Flight Handbook is a companion to 31
simple tutorials. These missions begin with
basic maneuvers and move on to all other
aspects of the F-16. Lessons teach the
functions of the interactive switches and
dials in the cockpit and address the exten-
sive radio system — you’ll learn how to send
commands to your wingman and how to
find the nearest refueling tanker.
Falcon 4.0’s graphics are a remarkable
engineering feat. The terrain is a pleasing
trade-off between photorealistic quality
and designing the program to fit on one
CD. Above 3,000 feet, the mountains
and valleys are smooth. Close to the
ground, square texture maps become
visible, but they aren’t distracting. The
program also renders planes and other
vehicles expertly. The hardware-accelerated
graphics such as smoke trails, lens flares,
and clouds are all gorgeous. The glass
in the cockpit even reflects the surround-
THESE ARE JUST A FEW of the controls acces-
sible in the cockpit. You’ll have to look down,
left, and right to see the rest. Hurry— the target
is approaching.
ings, making it hard to grow tired of just
looking around.
The physics in Falcon 4.0 round out the
experience. The jets react very much in
accordance with Newtonian physics. If you
prefer arcade-style gameplay, you can trade
realism for quick maneuverability and steer
wherever you want without much concern
for speed, weight, or gravity.
48 MacADDICT SEPT/99
FLARES TAKE THE HEAT-TRACKING
MISSILES away from your plane.
Launch them, then maneuver to
avoid the threat.
The game types in Falcon 4.0 are more
diverse than in other flight sims. The options
include Instant Action, Dogfight, and
Campaign. Dogfight and Instant Action
require little preparation — they place you
in the middle of a fight. In the most plan-
ning-intensive mode, Campaign, you can
select your missions, targets, and flight
paths. You can also download missions
other players have designed or create your
own missions within the game. With all
these different ways to play, it’ll take hun-
dreds of flights to even start to exhaust
Falcon 4.0’s possibilities.
The multiplayer features of Falcon 4.0
offer more variety than other simulators.
For example, you aren’t limited to dog-
fights in network play. Campaign mode is
more fun with another player as your wing-
man or even as an enemy planning strikes
against your base. However, the network-
ing functions of Falcon 4.0 have some
shortcomings. Internet battles work fairly
well on a modem, but there’s no simple
way to find existing games. Another diffi-
culty is that on LANs, Falcon 4.0 only sup-
ports TCP/IP connections, so AppleTalk
users are out of luck.
Falcon 4.0 suffered from bugs in the
earlier PC release, but fortunately the Mac
version doesn’t share these. Nevertheless,
the porting company, Westlake Interactive,
released a maintenance patch a few days
after the game shipped. It’s annoying to
have to patch a shipping product, but in the
games market, that’s life. That said, the few
bugs left after the update don’t detract
from gameplay.
As is common with cutting-edge games,
the company understates Falcon 4.0’s
requirements. For the best performance,
you need plenty of RAM, a G3, and a Rage
128 or Voodoo2 video card. In addition to
high system requirements, Falcon 4.0
requires an InputSprocket-compatible joy-
stick or flight stick. A true pilot wouldn’t
want to play with a mouse or keyboard.
Although Falcon 4.0 is merely a game,
we like to think that it’s the closest you’ll
THE BLUE ANGELS would be
proud. When the missiles and
bombs overwhelm you, turn on
your smoke trail and perform
some acrobatics.
DON’T LOOK DOWN. Get your story straight on
the descent. If you make a blatant error, your
superiors won’t be pleased.
get to climbing into an F-l6 and flying the
unfriendly skies at Mach speeds without
becoming a real top gun. With its impres-
sive visuals, realistic physics, and action-
packed missions, Falcon 4.0 lets you
engage MiGs, liberate nations, and win
medals — and you can pause to take a
breath once in a while . — Zack Stem
Aim High
Get with the program: Buy more
RAM. You deserve it.
Stay on target; Use the extended field
of view to track one plane, but target a differ-
ent one.
Use the force, Luke: Use the tracking
view to approximate the direction to an enemy
without radar.
Keep it tight: When turning, keep the
plane between 330 and 440 knots for the
tightest radius.
Trick your enemies: Drop chaff and
flares early and often.
GOOD NEWS: Eye-candy overload.
Supports Glide and RAVE.
Expandable missions. Realistic
physics model. Superb combat flight
sim. BAD NEWS; High system requirements. Mind-
blowing graphics require hardware acceleration.
Steep learning curve.
&
AUDIO
HARDWARE
DESIGN & GRAPHICS
MULTIMEDIA
IS
LOGIC AUDIO PLATINUM 4.0 p.62
IOMEGA ZIP 250 p.66
CAN0MA 1.0 p,52
FINAL CUT PR0 1.0 p.50
COMMUNICATION
QUE p.55
RICOH RDC-5000 p.54
ADOBE ACROBAT 4.0 p.58
QUICKTIME 4.0 p.60
Of
MACTUNER 2.0.7 p.67
Ml! ZIP p.66
UTILITIES
EXTENSIS SUITCASE 8 p.68
FUN & GAMES
FALCON 4.0 p.48
TOMB RAIDER GOLD p.64
PRODUCTIVITY
EXTENSIS PORTFOLIO 4.1 p.56
SEPT/99 MacADDICT 49
reviews
reviews
reviews
Final Cut Pro 1.0
MULTIMEDIA
COMPANY: Apple Computer
CONTACT: 800-795-1000 or 408-996-1010,
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro
PRICE: $995 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac G3/266 (300MHz
required for DV), Mac OS 8.5 or later, 128MB of
RAM, 6GB hard disk
RECOMMENDED: One or more separate Ultra2 LVD
SCSI media drives, a DV source connected to
FireWire I/O, DV camcorder, big monitor or dual-
monitor support
THE BROWSER
ORGANIZES all clips
and sequences, as
well as effects.
USE THE VIEWER
WINDOW to edit clips,
including in and out
points and all effects.
THE CANVAS
WINDOW SHOWS your
entire movie and plays
it back in real time.
THE TIMELINE HAS A
PARTICULARLY
ELEGANT DESIGN.
Note the red-and-gray
bar above the time
ruler— the red indicates
unrendered areas.
T here has long been just one leading
nonlinear editing package for the
Mac — Adobe Premiere. Competitors
such as Strata VideoShop and Radius
EditDV have had little success in unseating
Premiere, which is more powerful than its
rivals and better supported in the industry,
despite a few irritating misfeatures and
lackluster speed. However, a serious chal-
lenger has finally arrived — from Apple, of
all places — in Final Cut Pro. This app not
only delivers on digital video’s promise of
faster, more efficient editing, it is also a
pleasure to use. Even seasoned Premiere
fanatics will want to take a closer look at
this compact and elegantly designed new
editing tool.
For starters, you would never know this
is a 1.0 release; it feels like a 5.6 release. No
doubt this is because the program went
through an unusually long development
period, first at Macromedia and then at
Apple. Amazingly, once we had the app prop-
erly installed on our test machine — an over-
clocked 466MHz beige G3 with 288MB of
RAM and an UltraWide SCSI drive — every-
thing ran smoothly and without a hitch.
Editing with Final Cut Pro is much more
like editing with a high-end turnkey system
such as Avid’s Media Composer.
Final Cut Pro allows playback of
final-quality edits directly from
the timeline, without time-wasting
rendering. Of course, this only
applies to straight cuts; you have
to render transitions or special
effects as in any other program.
However, Final Cut Pro renders
only the portions that need it,
integrating them seamlessly with
the rest of the sequence. This
allows you to work smoothly and
efficiently, in many cases without
any rendering.
PRINTING TO TAPE through FireWire
is a breeze.
However, Final Cut Pro’s editing
approach does have a few drawbacks.
Notably, the app makes it difficult to stitch
together clips of different screen sizes (as
you might have to do if you were assem-
bling a reel of video mixed with wide-
screen film, or a quick animatic from
scanned drawings of various sizes). Final
Cut Pro won’t play back any clip that is not
exactly the same size as the rest of the
sequence until you’ve rendered that clip.
While this makes perfect sense within Final
Cut’s paradigm, it can be a pain. Note that
Premiere can do scaling for previews.
Final Cut Pro’s interface looks a bit
crowded, but it’s actually easy to navigate
and use. In one video window, you view and
prepare clips for insertion into the
sequence. In a second window, you view the
entire sequence as a movie. Completing a
basic three-point edit was simple. In fact, it
often involved just a single movement,
thanks to the pop-up menu of edit options
that appears as you drag clips from one
window to the other. The timeline and the
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Capture
Batch
Log and Capture
—
Total Tree Time (AV) 62.8 min
Total Free bpace 1 3.5 GB
Logging Clip Settings Preferences
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THE LOGGING WINDOW ALLOWS VERY PRE-
CISE CONTROL over FireWire digitizing.
trimming window show careful attention to
interface design, borrowing from the logi-
cal and wonderfully transparent design in
Adobe’s After Effects. The timeline naviga-
tion bar, for instance, looks like a device
from another planet — but get the hang of it
and you can jump between parts of the
timeline, moving and scaling all at once,
with an ease that makes the slider-and-
magnifying-glass interface of Premiere look
like stone knives and bearskins.
Organizing clips within Final Cut Pro is
similarly intuitive. It’s easy to drop clip
icons into bins (folders), and to make an
entire custom folder structure. More
important, you can actually use one Final
Cut Pro edited sequence as a clip in anoth-
er — an incredible timesaver that lets you
assemble large movies out of shorter,
easy-to-handle segments.
Final
F inal Cut Pro really shines when it comes to
using FireWire and the DV codec. Final Cut
can exercise direct device control over a
FireWire device— a DV camcorder or VCR—
allowing it to do the menial tasks of capture and
output much more quickly and easily.
When digitizing footage from a DV device,
Final Cut’s logging window replaces the usual
VCR-like record button. The logging window
grabs picture information directly from the DV
device without requiring you to press play or
stop. You can literally scrub through the con-
tents of a DV tape from this window just as
Another strong point is Final Cut Pro’s
special effects and layer compositing fea-
tures. Final Cut Pro doesn’t approach the
special effects power of Adobe After
Effects, but it does offer some high-quality
effects that are great for quick composites.
A complete set of motion tools allows any
clip to move, scale, or spin, and you can
generate motion blur based on a layer’s
movement. Full bicubic scaling means the
clip retains most of its detail and smooth-
ness even if you zoom in or out on it.
(Premiere’s scaling algorithm tends to
create nasty-looking jaggies.)
Equally important are Final Cut Pro’s
Transfer Controls, which allow you to add,
subtract, multiply, or otherwise combine the
values of the pixels in one layer with those in
another. These operations are the corner-
stone of many complex effects. There is an
abundant selection of filter tools, too. You
can animate all of the attributes for any
easily as if you had already digitized it and put it
on the hard drive. You can choose in and out
points in this window for each clip with com-
plete frame accuracy. Once Final Cut Pro has
logged all the clips, it captures them all at once
in a single automated step.
Output to a DV device is similarly simple
and accurate. Instead of popping in a tape and
pressing the record button while the video sig-
nal goes to the VCR, to print to a DV tape you
simply choose the frame on the tape where you
want the movie to start. The movie prints
directly to that area of the DV videotape.
video or audio effect using function curves,
a gigantic leap beyond Premiere’s lame
keyframe interface.
About the only caveats with Final Cut Pro
involve hardware compatibility. You’ll
definitely want a G3 and Mac OS 8.5 or
later to run Final Cut Pro. This may cause
grief to editors who have older machines
with six PCI slots (which may not be com-
patible with 8.5). FireWire I/O is very desir-
able, too, as the app is especially good at
interfacing with FireWire devices (see
“Final Fire”). However, Final Cut Pro fails
to support a number of popular analog
video output cards. We found our unsup-
ported Aurora Fuse MJPEG card had sound-
sync problems with unrendered output
direct from Final Cut Pro. Check Apple’s
FireWire site for an up-to-date list of
compatible video cards.
The final analysis? Final Cut Pro is a
robust program with killer features that
editors who want a fast, efficient workflow
will find irresistible. If you’ve got a heavy
investment in older hardware (such as a
six-slot Mac) , you may need to think hard
before choosing Final Cut Pro over time-
tested Premiere. But if you’re moving into
the world of DV, FireWire drives, and just-
in-time content creation, Final Cut Pro is
the way to go. — RafAnzovin
GOOD NEWS: Intuitive and elegantly ^
designed. Fast editing workflow.
Dynamic rendering. Advanced
effects. BAD NEWS: Rendering footage
of different sizes is harder than it needs to be.
Sync problems with unsupported video output
cards. Requires a beefy Mac.
SEPT/99 Mac ADDICT 51
reviews
reviews
DESIGN & GRAPHICS
COMPANY: MetaCreations
CONTACT: 800-846-0111,
http://www.metacreations.com
PRICE: $499 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.0 or later,
32MB of free RAM, 50MB of free hard disk space,
CD-ROM drive, 24-bit video
reviews
(anoma
CANOMA ALLOWS YOU TO QUICKLY AND EASILY CREATE 3D models from 2D pictures by
placing wire frame polygons on an image and rendering the wire frames with the 2D picture
as a texture map.
M odeling 3D objects is one of the hard-
est tasks for an artist. Correctly
accounting for perspective, size, and
shape (especially for real objects that viewers
would easily recognize) can be a painstaking
process for those just getting started with 3D.
Many programs available now make it easier
to create 3D models than before, but no pro-
gram has ever made it simple to turn a com-
plex 2D photograph or image into a polygon-
rich world until now. MetaCreations’s Canoma
does exactly that. It enables you to quickly,
that is to say within five minutes or less, turn
a fairly detailed 2D image of a building or
object into a polygonal 3D object that you can
rotate, zoom, and export to other 3D apps.
The first time you transform a 2D image
into a 3D model is nothing short of breath-
taking. The process is simple and intuitive,
and MetaCreations’s signature interface,
which people either love or hate, actually
complements the authoring process. The fun-
damentals of Canoma are simple: Click one of
Canoma’s shape buttons to create a wire-
frame polygon to map onto a 2D image (the
wire frame must match the shape of the
image), move the wire frame into position
over the 2D image while being careful to align
the comers and sides of the wire frame to the
comers and sides of the image, and click ren-
der. Canoma will then create a polygon in 3D
space and map the 2D image to the sides of
the 3D model. Of course, the process we just
described produces a very primitive 3D
model, but the work required to create a
complex 3D image is essentially more of the
same: choosing a wire frame that resembles
the shape of the 2D image you want to model
and lining it up.
The process of aligning wire frames uses
a metaphor that works beautifully. If you want
to transform a 2D picture of a square building
into a 3D model, you would begin by putting
a matching 3D wire frame into the image.
Canoma’s version of a square probably won’t
match the square building exactly, therefore
you have to line it up by putting a pin in one
of the comers of the wire frame and pinning
that wire frame comer to a comer of the
building. Once pinned in place, the comers
stay fixed unless you move them. You can pin
all the visible comers in this way, which
makes alignment quite simple. A second
method of alignment is to use a handle, which
MetaCreations calls a bead, to pull an entire
side to where it should be.
Determining height in a 3D world can be
difficult, but Canoma allows you to stack and
align new wire frames with existing wire
frames. If you’re modeling a ziggurat, for
example, this would ensure that each level
actually sits atop the level below it as opposed
to hovering slightly above, a mistake many
newcomers to 3D make. To lock the wire
frames together, you can use a Glue tool to
stick a wire frame’s comer to a side or comer
of another wire frame, ensuring a tight fit.
USING THE IMAGE WINDOW, you can
add or subtract images that will be used
to make a 3D model and navigate
between them.
THE DISTINCT METACREATIONS 3D
navigation tools make rotating, panning,
and zooming into a 3D image simple.
THE CREATION TAB PROVIDES access
to the primitive 3D wire frame objects
that you can use to construct a 3D
model in.
ALL OF CANOMA’S MOST USED
TOOLS are only a click away on
the toolbar, including Pinning,
Glue, and Zoom.
THIS WINDOW FUNCTIONS both
as a preview pane as wire
frames are pinned into place and
as a render pane where you can
examine and move a 3D rendered
object.
PEOPLE EITHER LOVE OR HATE MetaCreations’s unique interface, but in
Canoma, it actually enhances the usability of the product.
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Once you map a picture with wire frames,
Canoma renders it as a 3D model that you can
circle and look at from any angle just like any
other 3D model. Of course, the sides of a 3D
model that Canoma can’t see (the ones
behind the visible sides in a photograph)
won’t have any bitmapped images on them.
To correct this, Canoma offers several
options. One is to mirror the bitmap such that
opposite sides of the model look the same.
This approach doesn’t always yield useful
results, however, as the image will probably
become distorted. As a second option, you
can use a photograph taken from the oppo-
site angle of an object and map it to the back
of the 3D model, covering all sides of the
object. This approach works very well, but
only if photographs of multiple angles of an
object exist. The third possibility is to make
2D textures either from a photograph or by
hand, then assign them to the different sides
of the wire frame polygon. Aside from offering
a way to cover or enhance the appearance of
a 3D model, this approach also allows you to
really experiment with the model’s look. For
example, a picture of a brownstone, modeled
in 3D, could easily have a straw or clay texture
mapped to the sides to create a very different
look in seconds. The possibilities for experi-
mentation here are virtually unlimited.
On the technical side, you can export 3D
models created in Canoma in the usual for-
mats, including DXF, WRL, VRML2, and
MetaCreations’s own MetaStream. Canoma
also features a relatively simple keyframe ani-
mation function that you can use to create
walkthroughs of 3D models or flybys.
Although Canoma is an amazing product,
it does show its version 1 .0 youth. The biggest
problem is that Canoma doesn’t handle
curves or spheres easily. The Creation palette
ships with a lot of useful 3D wire frames,
including tables, arches, roofs, and stairs, but
try to model the Epcot Center or a dome, and
the program starts to feel a little limited.
Texture seams, where white shows at the
edges of two sides of a polygon, can also
prove difficult to correct, as the wire frame
may appear to be correct in the pinning view,
but then not quite line up when rendered.
Textures applied from 2D images also have a
tendency to stretch or warp near edges and
comers, even though the pinned wire frame
looks correct. Some of these quirks are sim-
ply inherent to working in 3D, while some are
due to Canoma’s relative youth.
Canoma’s ability to quickly make 3D
worlds out of a 2D image and map any
bitmap to any facet in that 3D world is
delightful to use and unsurpassed in ease.
There is no question that Canoma is an
amazing product. Aside from a few techni-
cal issues, only the price holds this product
back. At $ 499 , Canoma is expensive. To
game designers and 3D artists it will be a
boon, but as a utility, not a final modeling
solution. To the other markets Canoma is
aimed at, including professional designers,
Web site developers, and interior designers,
Canoma is, again, a very expensive utility.
Potentially the biggest market for Canoma is
hobbyists getting into 3D. If Canoma sold
for only $150, it would probably ship in 10
times as many units . — Rick Sanchez
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HARDWARE
COMPANY: Ricoh
CONTACT: 800-225-1899 or 775-352-1600,
http://www.ricohcpg.com
PRICE: $699 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Mac with serial port or factory-original USB, Mac OS 8.5 or
later, CD-ROM drive to install software
SPECIFICATIONS: 2.3-megapixel CCD with 2.15 active megapixels; 2.3X optical
zoom lens; has 8MB internal memory and uses SmartMedia cards; 1.8-inch
TFT LCD; USB support; video in/out; optional remote control ($25); accepts
alkaline, NiCd, NiMH, and Lilon AA-size batteries (AC adapter included)
THE RDC-5000 SPORTS A SLEEK DESIGN that disguises its phat 2.3-
megapixel resolution.
T he latest generation of consumer point-
and-shoot digital cameras boasts a 2-
megapixel resolution or higher, which
means ultrahigh-res images, a far cry from
the 640 by 480 pixel or 800 by 600 pixel
images of the first digital cameras. Among
this fresh crop of cameras is Ricoh’s RDC-
5000, which claims a 2.3-megapixel resolu-
tion. Packed with features, this slim silver
camera is one of the first to also provide
USB connectivity.
The RDC-5000 sits in a sleek, lightweight
case that’s comfortable to hold and handle.
The optical viewfinder, which traditional
film photographers will find reassuring, is
well placed near the midpoint of the
camera’s width. The thumb dial is also a
familiar control, with easy-to-understand
icons representing main camera functions.
For example, selecting the Trash Can
icon sets the RDC-5000 to Delete mode. In
addition, the camera’s
LCD, which serves as a
digital viewfinder, fea-
tures simple controls.
The RDC-5000’s LCD
also features a bright-
ness control, which is
AT 1.5 INCHES the camera still
captured clear images.
very useful for low-light conditions.
Unfortunately, noticeable graininess mars
this LCD’s quality, regardless of fight levels
indoors or outdoors.
But what about taking pictures? The
RDC-5000’s autofocus is acceptable for
everyday photography, and the manual over-
rides are great for those who want tweaka-
bifity and control. One of the autofocus’s
more remarkable abilities is that it can pass
seamlessly from normal focal lengths to
Macro mode, allowing you to take snaps
from as little as 1.6 inches from the subject.
With other digital cameras, such as the
Epson PhotoPC 750Z, you have to select
Macro mode manually with a function but-
ton. Also remarkable is that the RDC-5000’s
Macro mode not only performs to specs, but
allows one of the tightest focal distances in
its class. You need a dam steady hand at that
close range, though, because even the
slightest hand movement makes the Macro
shot a little blurry.
Pictures taken with the RDC-5000 look
best at 1792 by 1200 in fine quality, the
camera’s maximum resolution. At this size,
image quality is crisp, with accurate colors
in the right fighting. In low-fight conditions,
the image sometimes takes on a red cast.
For the artistically inclined, the RDC-5000
also takes black-and-white or sepia-tone
images. This is a laudable feature, because
you can capture very high-res, Ansel Adams-
style images — well, you can try anyway. In
any color mode, the RDC-5000’s output
needs some tweaking in Photoshop, but this
is true of any digital camera.
Overall, Ricoh’s RDC-5000 is a highly
commendable camera with only one main
drawback: its USB implementation . The USB
driver was flaky and misbehaved, asking us
to disconnect the cable or failing to initialize
the SmartMedia disk. We tried the USB con-
nection on blue-and-white G3s, but it failed
to work at all. What made matters worse
was that the serial cable provided was PC
only. Consequently, we had to attach a Mac
adapter to it to make it functional on a beige
G3. Another rough spot: Windows users get
four more bundled apps than Mac users.
If the USB connection were solid and
a Mac serial adapter were included,
then the RDC-5000 would deserve a
Freakin' Awesome. For now, however, the
RDC-5000 warrants a respectable Spiffy.
— -Jennifer Ho
GOOD NEWS: Ultrahigh-res images.
Easy-to-handle and lightweight form
factor. Adjustable LCD brightness.
Built-in 8MB SDRAM. Intuitive contra
Continuous and time-lapse shot capability. Serious
Macro mode. Automatic power oft saves battery
lite. Text mode tor capturing documents.
BAD NEWS: Requires a special Mac adapter.
Grainy LCD image regardless of light conditions.
Temperamental USB driver. Windows software
bundle has four more apps than Mac bundle. Only
works with standard Apple USB.
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Que USB
CD-RW drive
HARDWARE
COMPANY: QPS
CONTACT: 800-559-4777, http://www.qps-inc.com
PRICE: $299 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: 266MHz G3 or faster, Mac OS 8.5.1 or later, 32MB of
RAM, CD-ROM drive, 10MB of free hard disk space, 70MB free hard
disk space for disk cache
THE DRIVE WHOSE NAME
how to pronounce takes
a licking and keeps on ttcking...um, we mean, burning.
I f your get-rich-quick scheme involves pirating CDs with the Que USB
CD-RW drive, you might want to rethink your business plan.
However, if you’re desperate to back up your hard drive on CDs and
don’t mind a system crash, this drive might be the way to spend that
$299 lying around.
The drive looks impressive. But good looks aren’t everything. Due
to the inherent limitations of USB, the Que burner is butt slow com-
pared to its SCSI counterparts. A 19-track CD with 72 minutes of audio
took about 45 minutes on a 266MHz iMac to bum onto a CD-R using
Adaptec’s Toast at 2X speeds. Our 266MHz G3 burned the same tracks
in under 20 minutes using a SCSI burner running at 4X speeds.
In addition to its speed problems, the drive is about as reliable as a
one-legged dancing bear. You must set the memory settings precisely
as directed in the troubleshooting guide, or you can expect repeated
system freezes. However, even if you follow directions, still brace
yourself for freezes, hard crashes, occasional data corruption, and
wasted CDs. We tried to record 19 audio tracks on ten discs and had
data errors or crashes on seven of them.
The Que drive is slow and unreliable, but it is sturdy! We dropped
the drive, but amazingly, sometimes it worked, sometimes not — just
like before The Accident. If you’re looking for an inexpensive flaw-
less USB CD-RW drive, this drive isn’t it. — Nikki Echler
GOOD NEWS: The price is right, and when it works, it’s
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BAD NEWS: It doesn't always work, and when it does,
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Portfolio 4.1
PRODUCTIVITY
COMPANY: Extensis
CONTACT: 800-796-9798 or 503-274-2020,
http://www.extensis.com
PRICE: $199.95 (SRP); upgrade from 3.0, $99.95
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5.3 or later
(System 7.5.5 or later recommended), 6MB of free
RAM, 20MB of free hard disk space
P ortfolio is a cross-platform digital
asset management application for
cataloging graphics, 3D objects,
sounds, and QuickTime movies in galleries
you can browse visually or search by key-
word. Version 4.1 is the latest in a string of
major updates to the program since
Extensis acquired Portfolio (formerly
Fetch) from Adobe in 1996. Significant
new features include custom URL fields,
importing, find and replace, individual
record views, slide shows, HTML export-
ing, scripting, and a client-server option.
The basic operation of Portfolio
remains unchanged: Drag and drop one or
more volumes or folders into a window,
and the program extracts or creates a
thumbnail of each file, adding the file
name, location, creator, creation date, and
other data to the catalog. The time required
depends on your Mac’s CPU speed and the
number, size, and type of files. You may
then add an unlimited number of user-
definable keywords; a 32,000-character
description; and custom fields for date,
time, decimal, integer, string, and URL data.
The new importing and find-and-replace
features make it easy to apply information
globally either from an existing database or
on an ad hoc basis, respectively.
You can view items as traditional gallery
thumbnails, as a list, or in the new Record
View format, which displays more
information alongside a thumb-
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Portfolio’s new Record View,
which combines features of
the thumbnail and list views.
nail. Although you can My
customize each view, you
can’t directly edit the visible
fields, and there are no pro-
portional scroll bars or
tools for navigating large
catalogs. The powerful Find
feature allows you to select
specific items that match
complex criteria and even
to save frequently used
searches, but that’s not a
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substitute. Also
annoying is the inability to maintain a custom
sort order after performing a find. Finally, the
relationship between original items, catalog
records, and gallery views remains confusing
due to the menu names and organization.
Portfolio 4.1 comes with tools for pro-
fessionally presenting your images. You can
create a splash screen for your catalogs,
design custom borders for thumbnails, and
use the new bare-bones slide-show capabil-
ity. Addressing a longstanding shortcoming,
Extensis now provides a freely distributable
read-only browser, which you can bum
onto CDs with your catalogs.
More ambitious users will appreciate the
new HTML Export command, which can pub-
lish catalogs on the Web complete with JPEG
NEW WEB FEATURES allow you to specify a
URL for each record, as well as providing the
ability to export a catalog in HTML format.
thumbnails, but you’ll have to do some hand
coding to get the look you want. If that
doesn’t faze you, you’ll probably also appreci-
ate the new support for scripting with
AppleScript, which allows you to automate
tasks within Portfolio and between other
applications (several useful sample scripts
are provided). In contrast, collaborating on
catalogs with other Portfolio users on a net-
work is relatively easy through File Sharing.
An optional $2,500 Portfolio Server is avail-
able for offices that crave better performance
and the ability to host simultaneous users
without requiring existing Portfolio users to
install new client software.
With a host of powerful new features,
Portfolio 4.1 remains a valuable tool for
content creators trying to keep track of
digital assets. However, a confusing
nomenclature and poor interface design
obscure some of that power. Fortunately,
the detailed user guide is well-written and
free technical support is available via a
toll-free call . — Owen W. Linzmayer
PORTFOLIO NOW SUPPORTS SCRIPTING and even
Includes a handful of samples to gel you started.
WHOLESALE KEYWORD CHANGES are a snap
with the new Find and Replace feature.
GOOD NEWS: Cross-platform.
Powerful new features. Relatively I
inexpensive. Multiuser capability.
Support for AppleScript. BAD NEWS:
Some operations are complex and counterintuitive.
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Adobe Acrobat 4.0
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DESIGN & GRAPHICS
COMPANY: Adobe Systems
CONTACT: 800-642-3623, http://www.adobe.com
PRICE: $249 (SRP), $99 upgrade
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5.3 or later, 6MB
of application RAM (12MB recommended), 16MB of
application RAM for Distiller (32MB recommended)
A dobe has heralded Acrobat and PDF as
the wave of the future ever since their
original release, but a major revision
has been slow coming. To date, PDFs have
been used mainly for passing documents on
the Web and presenting user manuals in
software packages in lieu of printed copies.
But PDF has also gained ground in the digi-
tal prepress environment. With the advent of
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and its increased devel-
opment and capacity in prepress handling
functions, PDF has become a workhorse in
the digital print production flow.
Version 4.0 comes packed with
improvements and enhanced capabilities,
as Adobe is determined to solidify PDF as
the solution in prepress environments.
Acrobat 4.0 simplifies PDF creation,
expands annotation tools, and adds color
management and new font-handling capa-
bilities. Also, you now have the ability to
make changes directly to both images and
text in your PDF documents.
To simplify PDF creation, Adobe
Acrobat 4.0 allows drag-and-drop or print-
from-file functions and comes with three
levels of optimization. Screen Optimization
is for any document intended for onscreen
viewing, especially on the Web. It down-
samples all of your images to 72 dpi and
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The Press Optimi-
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files for your service
bureau or prepress facility — files that end
up as professionally printed documents.
Increased print production capacity is
the one major feature that promises to
- enhanced color management features
- advanced font embedding and subsetting
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- plug-ins available for text editing in the PDF file
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best prepress workflow solutions. Acrobat
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PDF document. Font management features
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an image in your PDF document launches
Photoshop or Illustrator; you can capture
changes from these apps and set them in
your PDF document. The TouchUp Text tool
allows minor text changes and lets you fix
annoying typos that everyone missed. Third-
party plug-ins provide a greater capacity for
substantial text editing.
Using PDF as both a proofing tool and a
vehicle for customer and co-worker com-
munication has gotten much easier with
Acrobat 4.0. Adobe has added annotation
tools that stay on their own layer, giving you
and your clients the ability to make notes
and comments without changing the content
of the PDF document. You can place sticky
notes of any length anywhere in your PDF
document. In addition, you can move, sort,
import, export, and identify sticky notes. A
Highlighter tool enables underlining and
strike-through text. The Pencil lets you
mark up text or circle errors, and the
Rubber Stamp lets you place your seal of
approval. With all these fun tools, every-
one — you, your clients, and your cowork-
ers — can review a PDF proof and have a go
at adding comments to the work.
The new and improved features, and
Adobe’s impressive concentration on the
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commercial printing and prepress environ-
ments make Acrobat 4.0 live up to its origi-
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MULTIMEDIA
QUICKTIME PLAYER DOES JUST ABOUT
EVERYTHING wrong in the interface depart-
ment. Even Mick Mallard is depressed about it.
one’s guess why Apple, which wrote the
book Human Interface Guidelines
(we’ve still got our copy), would diverge
so much from its own principles.
The new installer is trouble, too. Every
time you do an install, it requires you to con-
nect to an Apple Web site and download a
stub, which then asks you to do further
downloads. That means no installations on
machines without a modem; no download-
ing for later installation; no installations
through a firewall; and no installations with-
out contacting Apple, which can gather
information on your machine while you do
the install. (At press time, Apple had
announced that it would eventually make
QuickTime CD-ROMs available for offline
installations. This would address most
installer problems.)
QuickTime has always been one of the
very best things coming from Apple.
Streaming, MP3, and expanded support for
more file formats have made it even better.
But Apple should keep in mind that nothing is
so good that it can’t go bad. — Steve Anzovin
GOOD NEWS: Low-cost streaming.
MP3 playback. More pro-level fea-
tures and compressors.
BAD NEWS: Worst QuickTime Player
ever. Installer can cause problems. Mac OS X
Server required to stream content.
COMPANY: Apple
CONTACT: 800-795-1000 or 408-996-1010, http://www.apple.com/quicktime
PRICE: $29.99 Pro version (SRP), free standard version
REQUIREMENTS: 68020 or faster, 8MB of RAM, System 7.1 or later
RECOMMENDED: G3, Mac OS 8.5.1 or later
A fter one of the longest windups in multi-
media history, Apple has finally pitched
a new iteration of QuickTime. Version
4.0 looks fresh and has groundbreaking new
features, and the standard version is still free
(though we recommend getting QuickTime
Pro for $29-99) . That’s all to the good. But the
QuickTime team has also committed some
faux pas that will have you asking just what
they were thinking.
QUICKTIME 4.0’S NEW, BRUSHED CHROME PLAYER
hides not one, but two motorized trundles— one for audio
controls, one for Favorites.
The big news in QuickTime 4.0 is real-
time streaming, the long-promised ability to
stream movies and audio in real time over
the Web. The QuickTime Streaming Server
software is free, but setting up a streaming
server requires a machine running Mac OS X
Server ($495), and probably an additional
Mac to digitize and reflect content to the serv-
er hardware. Still, this is better than the
streaming arrangements RealNetworks,
maker of the popular RealPlayer, dictates —
it charges a hefty license for each server
setup. While you may not need to serve your
own content, you can certainly view it at any
streaming QuickTime site. We think stream-
ing QuickTime movies look better than the
same movies played through RealPlayer — at
least on fast connections. (At 56
Kbps, all streaming content
looks so awful that you can
hardly tell the difference.)
You can now play your MP3
collection in QuickTime 4.0,
too. That’s just one of several
new file formats it supports,
including FLI (the Autodesk ani-
mation format) and Karaoke
(we haven’t tried this yet, but it
sounds cool). The range of formats truly
makes QuickTime 4.0 a universal standard;
the upgrade is worth it just for this.
So what enticed Apple to wreck the
interface for MoviePlayer, now called
QuickTime Player? This mini application
now sports a bloated and tacky brushed-
chrome appearance, like a cheap gadget
from The Sharper Image. The window lacks
most of the standard Mac window controls
you’ve grown to know and depend on.
Additional gratuitous irritations include an
eye-distracting sound-level meter you can’t
hide or turn off, a volume thumb wheel you
simply can’t operate with a mouse, and a
motorized drawer that trundles out at the
speed of molasses when you need an essen-
tial feature such as the rewind button. We
strongly recommend that you learn the key
commands for most QuickTime Player
functions, because they’re easier to use
than the new interface controls.
The worst offender is the Favorites
drawer. This classic example of bad
design — possibly the worst ever to come
out of Apple’s own shop — lets you plop
your favorite movies and MP3s into little
pigeonholes. Note, however, that the icons
in the pigeonholes have no names, and
most movie icons show up in plain black.
Moreover, if you move the QuickTime
Player down toward the bottom of the
screen, or open a movie that takes up
most of your screen, you won’t be able to
open the Favorites drawer at all. It’s any-
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Logic Audio Platinum 4.0
COMPANY: Emagic
CONTACT: 530-477-1051, http.//www.emagic.de
PRICE: $799 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, 120MHz or faster (G3
recommended), System 7.5.3 or later, 32MB of RAM
(128MB recommended)
E magic’s long-awaited Logic Audio
Platinum 4.0 is the new Rolls Royce of
Mac audio software. It features a state-of-
the-art sequencer, an exceptional integrated
stereo sample editor, professional-level score
notation, and a fully programmable audio and
MIDI track mixer. To sum it up, Logic Audio
Platinum 4.0 has more features than any
audio pro could possibly use or master in a
lifetime — the app is that complex and well
designed. Futhermore, its unique flexible
design allows composers and sound design-
ers to work faster and do more than in any
other program we’ve ever encountered. Logic
Audio 4.0 impressed us, and we highly rec-
ommend this audio powerhouse.
Logic Audio 4.0 achieves a functional
depth well beyond that of other audio systems
with its Environment concept. Environment
contains a series of screens organized in lay-
ers; a virtual representation of all the MIDI
and audio hardware in your studio; and Logic
Audio’s own mixers, processors, and devices
such as arpeggiators and delays. Also, the flow
USE LOGIC AUDIO’S 500 PROGRAMMABLE KEY COM-
MANDS to work faster. Access the items with a bullet in
front of them with a key command. A search engine can
find the functions or keys you need.
of data always begins in Environment. It then
goes to the Arrange window, where you
record and arrange sequences and digital
audio (you may modify these using editors —
more on that later). The signal goes back to
Environment for mixing and finally gets rout-
ed to the gear in your studio.
You also define instruments and devices
in Environment, as well as audio regions and
sequences, all of which Logic Audio calls
Objects. When selected, each Object has a
parameter box where you adjust its settings. If
your song gets bogged down with too many
tracks, organize a group of them, such as
drum tracks or vocal parts, into a folder. That
folder appears on one track of the song. It lit-
erally becomes an object you can move or
transpose. Double-clicking on the folder
opens it, giving you access to any of its parts.
This design is fantastic because there are no
more confusing arrangement windows with
so many tracks scrolling down the page that
you can’t figure out what you’re working on.
In Logic Audio, you switch the position of the
bridge, then add a chorus; it’s a snap when all
of your parts are linked together.
Besides the unique interface design, the
backbone of Logic Audio Platinum 4.0 is
Screensets. There are so many ways to view
and deal with data that it’s impossible to see
them all at once. Imagine having a bank of up
to 90 monitors on which to view Logic Audio.
THE STRIP SILENCE FUNCTION IS THE BEST
WAY around to divide narration or rhythmic
audio tracks into separate Regions.
That’s the idea behind Screensets. Press a
number on your computer to bring up the
exact view you need. You may open any num-
ber of Screensets at once, and you can link
their displays, so what you do in one window
is reflected in another. Once you get used to
the idea, you’ll never want to go back (see
“Setting Up Screensets”),
In addition to an innovative design, Logic
Audio Platinum 4.0 houses three main edi-
tors: Matrix, or piano-roll style; Event List;
and Score. As in most other sequencers such
as Opcode’s Studio Vision Pro or Steinberg’s
Cubase, you can modify data in these editors.
But in Logic Audio, you can use the Parameter
window settings to make nondestructive
changes and hear your edits, keeping the
original performance. The days of trying out
a quantize style, undoing it, trying another,
and undoing it again are over — no more
making one small keystroke and losing your
timing nuances. If you like the result, you can
make all the changes permanent. All the edi-
tors, including Audio Editor and most of Logic
Audio’s other windows, have local menus, so
the main menus don’t get overwhelmingly
ENVERB, ONE OF THE 31 GREAT NEW PLUG-
INS, is the first processor to define the enve-
lope of a diffuse reverb so precisely.
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Setting Up Screensets
Once you've set up your hardware in Logic Audio, record or import a small MIDI file and assign
Instrument Tracks in the Arrange window. Then press number 7. We’re ready to make some Screensets!
I Size the Environment window to fit your
screen. From the Layer pop-up menu,
choose the layer where you see your
MIDI instruments. Select Multi-Instrument (the
square with 16 subchannel boxes). Click the
Channel numbers in the box to enable or dis-
able the subchannels you want to use. In the
View menu, choose Set Object Color. This
helps identify instruments when you see them
in the Arrange Page Instrument pop-up menu.
Press another number. Your last window gets
saved, and when you press 7 again, it will
show up.
3 Type 3 to open the Score window. Size
and drag it to the bottom of the screen.
Choose Track Mixer from the Windows
menu. In the Mixer’s Local Tracks menu, deselect
everything except MIDI Tracks. Open a Transport
window. In the pop-up menu, select Control
Switches Display. This makes the transport
small. Drag it to a convenient location.
2 Type 1 and the Arrange window
appears. Size it to fit your screen. Click
and hold the icon in the track list, and
choose an instrument you’ve defined. Repeat this
for all the instruments you want displayed.
Choose Transport twice from the Windows
menu, and arrange both Transports at the bottom
of your screen. Click and hold the triangle at the
bottom right of the first Transport to select Giant
SMPTE Display. Double-click Qua in the
Parameter box at the top left of the screen. This
brings up an extended Parameter Box. Place it at
the right side of your screen, as shown.
4 Type 6 to open the Matrix window. In
the View menu, select HyperDraw and
Note Velocities. This opens the Hyper
Editor, where you can draw and adjust controller
values. Click the ends of the Telescope icons to
zoom in and out horizontally or vertically and set
the working area display. Next open an Arrange
window and size it.
long and they keep functions where you need
them — a superb feature. Emagic has defi-
nitely refined Logic Audio’s interface to give
the composer unmatched efficiency and intel-
ligent time-saving tools.
The power of this highly complex and
exhaustive app comes at a price, though. The
learning curve is steep, even for audio pros
proficient in other apps. Fortunately, Emagic
provides a detailed manual and an excellent
CD tutorial, which uses QuickTime movies to
show you how to use Logic Audio — and it’s
well worth the effort. We’ve never used any
audio program that offered as much flexibil-
ity and high-quality performance. Pros will
definitely find they can work faster and
with more control than ever before. In
sum, if you’re a digital studio musician and
would like to work smarter, then Logic
Audio is for you .—Judy Munsen
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manual and tutorial. BAD MEWS; Extremely high
learning curve.
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Tomb Raider Gold
COMPANY: Aspyr Media
CONTACT: 888-212-7797 or 512-708-8100, http://www.aspyr.com
PRICE: $29.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: 80MHz PowerPC or faster, System 7.5.3 or later, 16MB of RAM,
60MB of free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM drive, QuickTime 3.0 or later
RECOMMENDED: 100MHz PowerPC or faster, 24MB of RAM, 8X CD-ROM drive,
Glide or RAVE hardware acceleration
T omb Raider was the game that
launched a thousand ships. No one can
refute its historical importance to com-
puter gaming, as it single-handedly gave
birth to real-time 3D action-adventure. In
the original, Lara seeks pieces of a mystical
amulet in exotic locations around the world.
Her adventure involves naughty aliens and a
power-mad industrialist with a dark philos-
ophy. But is this title — now in a Gold edition
for Mac, with four bonus levels — still as
fresh as it was with its PC debut in 1996?
If you’re not familiar with how Tomb
Raider works, note that it’s a departure from
the first-person shooter. Drawing more
Raiding Cheats
from the Lost Arc
To arm Lara with all available weapons, along with tons of
ammo, depress the walk button and step forward, then
backward one step. Turn three times to the right smoothly
and without stopping (turning a bit past a third full turn is
OK). Immediately jump backward and you’ll hear a gun
cock. To skip to the next level, use the same trick, but
jump forward instead of backward at the end.
FIND A
TOMBRAIDER
GOLD DEMO
on The Disc.
from console games in which you run,
jump, flip, and dodge your way around
obstacles, Tomb Raider doesn’t ask you to
aim your guns. All you have to do is decide
when to draw your weapons and when to
pull the trigger. Lara aims at the closest
enemy by default, and if she’s doing the aim-
ing, you can’t miss — well, not too often.
What’s the challenge, you ask? Mastering
the complex suite of movement options
available: Lara Croft can be an Olympic-level
gymnast. She can leap forward, vertically,
backward, and sideways. She can do a quick
180-degree turn to face an approaching
enemy. She can hang from ledges and swim
like a dolphin.
Lara can do all these things, but can
your fingers? A gamepad is a good invest-
ment for Tomb Raider Gold. Just be certain
to tweak the controls so you can control her
movements smoothly and quickly. A graph-
ics accelerator is also a must-have item for
this adventure. Even a first-generation, low-
end card such as a Voodoo Graphics or
IN ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SCENES in
computer gaming history, Lara meets a T-Rex
and must fight to live.
Rage Pro board improves the graphics from
pixelnation to modem eye candy ( modem
meaning within the past two or three years,
of course).
If you’re a Mac gamer coming to this
game fresh from Unreal or Quake 3, you’ll
require willpower to retrain those shooter
reflexes. Don’t aim. Move. Don’t aim. Move.
Repeat this mantra. It took us quite a while
to deprogram our trigger-happy itch, but the
results were worth it.
Because the action in Tomb Raider dif-
fers from that of shooters, we found the
gameplay only moderately challenging from
a combat perspective. Learning to master
Lara’s timing and acrobatic moves kept us
busy, however. The two-level add ons —
Unfinished Business and The Shadow of the
Cat — offer alternative endings and are more
difficult than Tomb Raider itself. The game
rewards your precision timing, though, as
Lara revisits those alien scumbags and
blasts ’em away.
We can’t recommend Tomb Raider to
game players who haven’t already cultivated
a taste for mixed action and adventure.
Furthermore, the third-person perspective
is both cool and annoying. While it breaks
conceptual ground, all too often the camera
leaves you looking at everything but the
action. Having a quick finger on the Look
button helps, but that’s just one more thing
to worry about in a fight. Still, the Gold edi-
tion is a good buy . — Ed Carmien
GOOD NEWS: More Lara. Mac
gamers get to enjoy the beginning
of Lara’s saga. Runs well on older
FowerPC-hased machines. A scary
T-Rex when you least expect ft. Comes with an
expansion pack (four bonus levels). Good value
tor price. BAD NEWS: The game engine and
graphics have aged. Lara's ponytail doesn’t
move. No multiplayer.
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Hii Zip 100
HARDWARE
COMPANY: Microtech International
CONTACT: 949-855-7500, http://www.microtech-pc.com
PRICE: $199 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 8.1 or later, USB port
N ot only do USB adopters have a broad
choice of removable-storage drives, but
now they have a choice of Zip drives.
Microtech International’s Mii Zip 100 drive
offers a licensed, My compatible alternative
to Iomega’s USB Zip drive, and it’s a looker —
sleek, stylish, and strikingly compact.
The Mii Zip is the clear winner on the
looks front. The drive’s transparent white-
and-metallic lavender case is a refreshing
contrast to some of the trashy-looking gadgets
that spawned in the wake of the iMac. It’s also
frankly amazing how teensy Microtech’s engi-
neers were able to make the drive, squeezing
out every cubic inch of empty space. However,
the compact profile of the drive is somewhat
negated by the bulky Art Deco USB adapter,
which adds almost four inches to its length.
Factoring in the adapter, the Mii Zip takes up
just as much desk space as Iomega’s bulky
Zip drive — and, unlike Iomega’s box, it can’t
be parked on its side to reduce its footprint.
From a functional standpoint, Microtech’s
drive is just as good as Iomega’s. It uses stan-
dard 100MB Zip disks, and our ad hoc testing
showed transfer rates equal to or slightly
higher than Iomega’s USB Zip drive. But with
no dramatic performance edge and no gen-
uine savings in desk space, the Mii Zip
really has only its good looks to justify the
$70 premium over Iomega’s offering.
— Mark Simmons
GOOD NEWS Good performance.
Slender, gorgeous case. Dainty AC |
adapter. BAD NEWS: Pricier than
Iomega version. USB adapter negates
space savings. Can’t be placed on its side.
THE GORGEOUS LAVENDER
MII ZIP 100 is an elegant imple-
mentation of a USB Zip drive and
comes with an Art Deco adapter.
If the Zip Fits
Who’s slimmer? Who’s trimmer? In the inter-
ests of experimental accuracy, we generated
dimensional measurements for both flavors of
USB Zip drive using our master benchmarking
ruler. As a result, these figures may vary
somewhat from the published specs.
Mii Zip 100 Iomega USB
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Length
6.3 in (10.0 in*)
7.1 in
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HARDWARE
COMPANY: Iomega
CONTACT: 800-697-8833, http://www.iomega.com
PRICE: $199.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac with a SCSI port (PowerBooks require a converter),
System 7.0 or higher, 8MB of RAM, 30MB of free hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM drive
Iomega Zip 250
THE ZIP 250 LOOKS PRETTY COOL but
its trunk capacity is falling behind
the curve in today’s giga-
byte-drive showroom.
I omega’s external SCSI Zip 250 sports a
new case that reflects a certain trend in
industrial design. Like recent automo-
biles, the Zip 250’s shell looks sleek yet
rotund, expanding well beyond the original
Zip drive’s boxy Volvo-like exterior. But the
real difference is the Zip 250’s larger
capacity — 250MB (though it accepts
100MB Zip disks). However, in the era of
gigabyte storage and cheap drives, the Zip
250 doesn’t offer a whole lot of value.
The good news is that the Zip 250 per-
forms well. In our tests with a beige G3 file
copying was almost twice as fast as with the
Zip 100. Also on the plus side, the 250MB
Zip disks make backing up your system
much easier. Mac OS 8.5’s System Folder
ballooned past 100MB — one standard Zip
disk doesn’t cut it anymore. The final posi-
tive is that the Zip 250 handles regular
100MB Zip disks perfectly, which helps
those committed to the Zip format.
The bad news is that the Zip 250 fails to
marry price with speed and capacity. In com-
parison to Castlewood Systems’ 2.2GB Orb,
which costs the same but copies at speeds up
to 12 MBps (see Reviews , Aug/98 p70), the
Zip 250, which copies at a maximum 2.4
MBps, simply isn’t fast. Furthermore, back-
ward compatibility only goes so far; the orig-
inal Zip drive can’t handle the 250MB Zip
disks so you’re starting over anyway. If
you’re trading files with friends or service
bureaus, you’re stuck using 100MB Zip
disks, which resigns the Zip 250 to person-
al backups. In that arena, die 2.2GB Orb and
Iomega’s own 2GB Jaz ($349) trounce it. If
you’re dying for the new look, take the Zip
250. For the rest of us, though, there are
bigger solutions .—Jennifer Ho
GOOD NEWS: Updated case design.
Larger-capacity 250MB disks for
backups of your bloated System
Folder. Almost twice as fast as the original.
BAD NEWS: 250MB Zip disks aren’t compatible
with original Zip drives. Capacity is too small for
the asking price.
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MacTuner 2.0.7
COMMUNICATION
COMPANY: Trexar Technologies
CONTACT: 831-636-7568 (e-commerce provider), http://www.mactuner.com
PRICE: $22.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or faster, System 7.5.3 or later, 16MB of RAM (24MB
recommended), 3MB of free hard disk space, Internet connection, RealAudio
Player installed (version 5 or higher including RealPlayer G2)
M acl\mer is a nifty little app that serves as a media player,
allowing you to enjoy RealAudio- and RealVideo-based
streams over an Internet connection. At the heart of
MacTuner 2.0.7 is a database of approximately 1,500 domestic and
international radio and TV stations, a list that continues to grow.
Also, you can use Maclliner’s built-in search engine to browse sta-
tions by musical genre or station format.
MacTuner 2.0.7’s interface consists of a Map
Browser, Search Engine, and Favorites; you’ll spend
most of your time in the Map Browser, which displays
the seven continents, each in a tabbed window. Click an
individual country on the map, and a list of its stations
appears in an adjacent window. Just double-click on a
station to play the audio or video stream. MacTuner
requires RealNetworks’ RealAudio Player to run, and if
you use RealPlayer G2, you can listen to international tunes in stereo.
In sum, MacHmer is the best way to find real-time international
broadcasts, short of buying a $100 short-wave radio tuner.
Because of Internet congestion, the reception of streaming
broadcasts varies greatly in quality. However, with a dial-up 33.6 or
48 Kbps connection, we were able to listen to stereo broadcasts
from countries as far away as Russia, with some congestion and
buffering here and there. Off-hours were much better, of course,
for our tuning efforts. You can listen to international broadcasts
without MacTuner by downloading RealAudio content from indi-
vidual Web sites, but if you want to save time, then MacTuner 2.0.7
can help you tune in —Jennifer Ho
FIND A
DEMO on
The Disc.
MACTUNER
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broadcasting
over the
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family, and indicates whether they are
PostScript, TrueType, bitmapped, or Multiple
Master fonts. It can also display a specific font
such as Dingbat or Symbol by name instead of
in WYSIWYG mode.
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8.6, and AppleScript support for all of the
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Tom Clancy Talks Rainbow Six
by Robert Capps and David Reynolds
T om Clancy, the
man behind a
plethora of the
most accurate —
and chiding —
political thrillers in the world, has
another side: that of game devel-
oper. The game Rainbow Six
(based on the novel of the same
name about a rapid-response
antiterrorist organiza-
tion) made a huge splash
on the PC side of the
gaming world last year
with its complex tac-
tics and realistic
gameplay. Now,
thanks to Mac-
Soft and Red Storm
Entertainment, it's on its
way to the Mac (it
should be out not long
after you read this)
and we're bringing
you a sneak preview and
an exclusive interview with
Tom Clancy.
MACADDICT:
Maybe you can start with a lit-
tle bit about how Red
Storm Entertainment
was founded and
what your role is.
TOM
CLANCY: It
started off because of
an investment I had with
Virtus Corporation. We got
together and decided to set up a
game company, which I thought
would be a fan thing to do. I went
over to England to get my friend
Doug Littlejohns to come over
and run it. Took me six months,
but I kidnapped him and brought
him over here, and now he runs
the company for me. He's doing
damn well at it.
MA: So what's your role?
TC: I'm a chairman. You
know, I just sort of show
up once in a while
and smile at the
troops. I work. We
sit around and talk
about game ideas
and tweaking the
ideas, and I help a little
in the development and
conceptual sense.
MA: Let me ask you, because I've
only read a chapter or so, what's the
story behind Rainbow Six?
TC: Rainbow Six is the first
book I’ve ever done that started
off with somebody else’s idea. We
had our first get-together before
the company even started opera-
tions, in Williamsburg, back in
1996, 1 guess. We were kicking
around game ideas. The idea for
a counterterrorist group came
up, and it perked my ears up a lit-
tle bit. I was thinking book before
we even had the game set in
place. I started the book, called it
Rainbow Six , and the game grew
up around that.
MA: And so the game and the book
evolved together?
TC: Yeah, they sort of grew up
together. I'd fly down to North
Carolina, and we'd sit on the back
porch of the building we were
in and kick around ideas. And
that’s where I came up with most
of the plot by myself, talking with
these kids.
n Rainbow Six, you play the leader of a Team members also have personality traits, play it like one, you'll lose— fast. Remember,
; multinational antiterrorist task force, as well as special skills. realism is the watchword for this game, and
Your job: Assault terrorist installations, Once you're done team-building, you a single shot can take you out. Instead, tac-
free hostages, and make the world a safer plan how the mission will unfold using a 3D
place. Gameplay revolves around planning map, and then the assault starts. Your team
and executing individual missions. After a is on the ground with you, and you can
mission briefing, you put together your order them around,
team by choosing from a pool of highly Although at its heart Rainbow Six looks
trained specialists, whom you then equip, a lot like a first-person shooter, if you try to
tics and strategy are king here, so dont run
around blasting everything in sight.
Rainbow Six features both single-player
and multiplayer modes. While the single-
player mode is fun, the cooperative mode is
where Rainbow Six really rocks —DR
70 MacADDICT SEPT/99
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MA: What's the story line?
TC: Rainbow Six is an
international NATO
counterterrorism
group based in
England, because
England's a good
place to get in and out
of.
MA: Have you played
the game much?
TC: Only down at the
shop. I don't really have the time
or expertise to play video games.
For me it’s a lot more fun to
design them than it is to play
them.
MA: Do you have a favorite aspect
of how the game came out? Is there
something you're especially proud of,
having your name on it and all?
TC: If my name’s on it, it has to
be realistic.
MA: So how do you address con-
cerns of violence in the games?
TC: This game is not about
killing people. The game is about
rescuing people. You win the
game not by killing all the
demons out of hell. You win the
game by rescuing lots of innocent
people. That's the focus of the
game. That's not the same as
Doom or all those other
mindless shoot-'em-up
games.
MA: You're an Apple
Master, correct?
TC: Yeah, I'm part
of the Apple Masters
program. God knows why.
I'm by no means a high-end
computer user.
MA: So what do you think of
Apple’s latest round of computers?
TC: Well, they’ve given me a
couple, and they’re pretty good.
MA: Do you still use a Mac to work
on your novels?
TC: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'll
never use anything but a Mac.
MA: Do you like the energy in
Apple Computer now?
TC: Yeah, Apple’s
turned the comer, I
think. They'll be
doing some stuff
later this year, which
I’ve heard about,
that’s going to be fairly
interesting.
MA: So when your game
came out, PC first and Mac
later, did that bum you?
TC: It was kind of disappointing
for me, but that's the way it goes.
MA: Right.
TC: It's a business decision,
because unfortunately Mac is not
a really large fraction of the
market yet That'll change, but it
hasn't changed yet.
MA: Do you see a time when
your novels and games will merge
even closer?
TC: What we're trying to do here
is essentially create a new art
form, and that’s something that
doesn't happen very often. Up
until now, whether you were an
epic poet talking around a camp-
fire or a novelist or a playwright
or a guy doing a script for
Hollywood or NBC, you were
essentially telling a story the same
way. You present the story to your
audience, and your audience
either likes it or doesn't like
it. With the emergence of
computer technology,
what we're going to see,
and what we're going
to help create at Red
Storm Entertainment,
is an art form in which
the audience can affect
and live the game as
part of it, not simply
observe it.
MA: How did you manage to
develop such great contacts within
the military?
TC: Oh, I’m a spy. No — the mil-
itaries, they’re full of people, and
they’re all American citizens, and
they’re hard-working guys. And I
tell the truth about them, and that
makes you friends.
MA: How did you become interest-
ed in military intelligence?
TC: It's a lot more inter-
esting than the
sexy, exciting life
of an insurance agent,
which is what I used to do. I've
always been interested in what
shapes the world. What
shapes the world unfortu-
nately to this point has
been war, although it
looks like we’ve just about
turned the comer on that. As the
world evolves, I think most of my
interests in war will become ret-
rospective rather than prospec-
tive. However, my interest is sim-
ply to say that's how history is
made, and I’ve always been a his-
tory buff.
MA: Are you excited to see
Rainbow Six coming to the Mac?
TC: Oh, definitely, yeah. Maybe
I'll break down and play it
this time.
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Manage Your Email from Anywhere
by Joseph Holmes
When traveling around the world, or around the
country, or even around town, you want to access
your email. You need to access your email. The
problem is you don't want to lug (or pay for) a
PowerBook, and travel-friendly Internet providers like
AOL...well, they suck. Fortunately there is another option.
All it takes is a little tinkering, and you can force some-
one else’s Internet connection and email program to grab
your mail from your ISP's servers. The same principle
applies if you want your home email client to check your
work email (or vice versa). Best of all, it's fantastically easy
to get email-switching savvy.
In this how-to, we'll show you the complete step by step
for logging onto a foreign Mac, reconfiguring the settings to
your own personal needs, and slipping away completely unde-
tected. You can also do the same things on a PC, but we're not
gonna talk about that. Once you've done this, you're fully
equipped for travel, working from home, or writing love let-
ters from work. Follow along and you'll never again miss an
electronic missive, from the poolside or the West Side.
Info You Must Have
LOOK FOR AN INTERNET-CONNECTED COMPUTER AT.
• A friend’s house. • The local public library. • An Internet cafe.* The busi-
ness center of a large hotel (which typically charges by the minute). • The
local Mac users group. * A copy shop such as Mailboxes Etc. or Kinkos.
Before you call the taxi to the airport, there are precisely five details you must memorize
(or at least write down). Open up your main email client application's setting dialog box (see
Step 1 for locating your email clients' settings) and retrieve the following information:
(?) USER NAME. This is the clever
screen name you use with your
ISR In our example we're bilbobag-
gins, making our email address
bilbobaggins@thehill.net
0 POP MAIL SERVER ADDRESS.
Your ISP's POP mail server
receives incoming email and holds
onto it. A POP mail server gives
your email to anyone, logged onto
any computer, anywhere, in
exchange for your user name and
password.
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SMTP MAIL SERVER ADDRESS.
Your ISP's SMTP mail server
accepts the email you compose and
passes it along to the addressees.
Some SMTP servers will not pass
along email that originates from
another ISP We'll show you how to
get around that.
REPLY-TO ADDRESS. This is simply
your email address, provided here
so people who get your messages
can use their nifty reply-to function.
YOUR PASSWORD. Shhhhh!
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Open Email Settings
Open the Mac’s email client application. Odds are it's Claris
Emailer, Microsoft Outlook Express, Qualcomm Eudora Pro,
Bare Bones Software Mailsmith, or the Messenger module of
Netscape Navigator or Communicator. Once you find one of these
and launch it, find the email account preferences settings. Here's
where they reside in the most recent versions of these apps:
• In Claris Emailer, select Accounts under the Setup menu.
• In Eudora Pro, select Settings under the Special menu and
scroll to Personalities.
• In Mailsmith, select Email Accounts under the Windows menu.
• In Outlook Express, select Email in the Preferences dialog box.
• In Netscape Navigator, first launch the User Profile Manager
application (found in the Netscape Communicator folder) and create
a new user profile. You dont need to fill in all the details at this point.
Instead, skip them, let Netscape launch, and open Netscape
Communicator's Preferences. Then select Identity under the Mail And
Newsgroups heading.
IN EUDORA PRO, you’ll find email account settings stashed under the topic
Personalities.
Enter Your Info
Click the New or New Account button to create a new
email account for yourself, and enter your information.
Never enter your password in the account information. The mail
client asks for your password each time you log on so that no one
else can access your email. For Netscape Communicator, you’ll
need to look in both the Identity and Mail Servers sections of the
Preferences to enter all the info.
As a spam prevention measure, many Internet service providers
refuse to forward email originating from another ISR This means you
may not be able to use your own ISP's SMTP address when you log
on from someone else's ISR But you can use this simple trick: Check
the SMTP address of another account on the computer you're
using— hopefully the SMTP address for the iSP you're logged
onto— and use that address instead. If you are checking your work
email from home, just
leave your home SMTP
setting in place for
sending mail.
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CLARIS EMAILER DOESN'T
label the boxes very clearly.
Put your real, human name
under User Name, and
combine your user name
and POP mail server
address in Email Account.
Set the Reply-To Address
Next you want to be sure the replies to emails you send
from the remote computer get routed back to you. To do
this, you need to fill in the Email Address, Reply Address, or Return
Address setting with your full email address— for example, bil-
bobaggins@thehill.net.
IF YOU FORGET the Reply-To
address, your friends'
replies may go to the owner
of the Mac, not you.
-{T) "FULL NAME" is your actual, real human name.
' 2 ) ACCOUNT ID or USER NAME is the name you use to log onto
your email account, such as jholmes21 or bilbobaggins.
-(T) Fill in the POP and SMTP server addresses,
which you wrote down before you left home.
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Next you should change the settings so that even after you download
your mail it stays on your ISP's server— the default setting deletes
email once you've retrieved it. Why bother? When you get back home, you'll
want to pick up and archive all the email you got while you were away. Here
is where to find the option to leave mail on the server:
• In Claris Emailer, the setting is under the Options tab.
• In Eudora Pro, look under Personalities.
• In Mailsmith, it's on the Checking tab.
• In Outlook Express, click the Advanced button.
• In Netscape, select the POP mail server in the list within the Mail
Servers preferences, then click the Edit button. In the dialog box that
appears, select the POP tab.
LEAVE EMAIL
ON THE SERVER
or kiss it good-
bye forever.
5 Check Your Mail
Now log onto the Internet and use your new account to check
your mail. Read, reply, and create new messages just as you nor-
mally do. Be sure you're sending mail from your own email account, not
your friend's. In every email application, there's a pop-up menu in the New
Message window that lets you select the account (in Mailsmith, it's under
the Options tab). You may also want to carbon-copy all your outgoing
messages to yourself. Otherwise, you won't have a copy of them to archive
when you return home.
IF YOU DON'T
CHANGE THE
DEFAULT
ACCOUNT, you'll
be sending
email from the
Mac owner's
address.
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When you've finished an email session, be sure to delete all your
mail — that means mail you've read and mail you've sent, which you'll
find in the Sent Mail folder. Remember that deleted messages get stored in a
Deleted Mail or Trash folder until you open that folder, select them, and delete
them permanently. And when its time to leave that computer for good, delete
your newly created email account. This will keep things tidy and prevent peo-
ple from accessing your account info.
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DELETING YOUR EMAIL is actually a multistep process!
Check POP Mail with a Web Browser!
Y ou're sitting at a computer in the local public
library, But there’s no email client on the
stupid thing, end besides, its a Windows machine!
No problem-you can check your email from
any Internet-connected computer in the
world at PandaMail (http://www.bstar.net/panda
/mailman.cgi). Simply type your user name, email
server PGP address, and password, and your
incoming mail appears in an informative list. You
can read and reply to messages from here, and
PandaMail leaves your email on the server so you
can collect and archive it when you get home.
If you’re leery about typing your password into some stranger's Web
page, consider Mainstay's JustMail ($40, http://www.mstay.com).
Before you travel, you have to upload the JustMail Java application
into your personal ISP Web space, but once you do this, you can
access JustMail from any Java-equipped Web browser in the world.
To access the Java applet, simply type the URL of your Web space,
followed by justmai] /justmai 1 . html. After the JustMail Java
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app toads, type your user name, email address, password, and POP
and SMTP server addresses into the text boxes, and your email
appears in a handy-dandy list format. A word of warning, however:
Test JustMail before you leave home. Due to a technical wrinkle,
some ISPs are not compatible with JustMail. If you get a Java error,
it's likely your ISP wont work with JustMail. Try it out with a demo of
the application,
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Powerbook
o
Turn your PowerBook Into
an External Hard Drive
By Owen W. Linzmayer
Those of us who mild man-
nerly tote PowerBooks by
day but morph into supped-
up, frame-rate obsessed
desktop junkies at night share a com-
mon struggle: finding the best, most
efficient way to get files from
PowerBook to Desktop. We toil with
Ethernet, slave over LocalTalk, and
labor with Zip discs and, yes, even
floppies. But there is a little-known
Mac trick that dwarfs all these tech-
niques. You can actually hook your
PowerBook directly to another Mac via
SCSI for file transfers at up to five
megabytes a second! Originally called
SCSI Disk Mode, this feature is now
also known as HD Target Mode and Target
Disk Mode in deference to PowerBooks with
internal ATMDE (Advanced Technology
Attachment or Integrated Drive Electronics)
drives. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll stick with
the term SCSI Disk Mode throughout this
article. No matter what you call it, this is
one cool feature that hasn’t gotten the
attention it deserves, which is a shame
It’s not Ethernet and it’s not LocalTalk— these Macs are hooked
via SCSI, and it’s fast. No more transferring files at the speed of
molasses.
when you consider its easy implementation
and useful application.
All PowerBook models except the
Power-Book 140, 145, 145B, 150, and 170
can be used in SCSI Disk Mode (a
MiniDock is required for use with a Power-
Book 200 or 2300). Once placed in SCSI
Disk Mode, a PowerBook can be connect-
ed to any Mac that has an external SCSI
port (most models since the Mac
Plus, including PowerBooks that
don’t support SCSI Disk Mode
themselves) . A PowerBook in SCSI
Disk Mode basically becomes an
external hard drive, albeit one
with a very stylish and expensive
case (none of the PowerBook’s
other components — CPU, serial
ports, modem, etc. — are accessi-
ble). The PowerBook’s hard drive
icon appears on the other Mac’s
desktop, allowing you to copy
files between all available vol-
umes, launch applications from
any disk, and even use the
Startup Disk control panel to
boot the other Mac using the PowerBook’s
drive (but don’t attempt to install or
upgrade the Mac OS on a PowerBook in
SCSI Disk Mode or you’ll end up with com-
ponents appropriate to the Mac model on
which the installer was running rather than
those needed for the PowerBook) . And not
only is transferring files through the SCSI
bus mega-fast, it’s easy to do, too.
Connectors, Cables, and Terminators
This all-important cable is called
Apple’s HDI-30 SCSI Disk Adapter
cable (part number M2539LL7A). It’s
a short, dark gray cable with a male
HDI-30 connector on one end and a
female 50-pin Centronics connector
on the other.
This is the standard Centronics-
to-HDI SCSI system cable
(M2538LL/A) used to attach SCSI
devices to a PowerBook. It’s very
similar to the SCSI Disk Adapter
cable except for the gender of the
Centronics connector (this one’s
male) and one extra pin in the HDI
(High-Density Interconnect) con-
nector (which tells the PowerBook
to start up in SCSI Disk Mode).
Y ou will need a few odds and ends to get your PowerBook
properly hooked to your desktop Mac or a second Power-
Book. Here’s what to pick up from your local Apple friendly
computer wares dealer:
Use a standard
Centronics SCSI
passthrough termina-
tor and keep the SCSI
voodoo away.
You will need a
Centronics-to-DB25
SCSI cable to get your
Powerbook connected
to a desktop machine.
76 MacADDICT SEPT/99
Photos by Aaron Lauer
Assign the PowerBooks a SCSI ID
Depending upon the version of the Mac OS and your
PowerBook model, open the PowerBook, PowerBook
SCSI Disk Mode, PowerBook SCSI Setup, or PowerBook Setup
control panel to set the SCSI ID to a number not currently in use
on the SCSI chain of your other Mac. If used, open the Password
Security control panel and turn off password protection. Close
both control panels, then choose Shut Down from the Finder’s
Special menu on both computers.
Select the I D you want to assign to your RoverBook when
using it in SCSI Disk Mode:
ID: Ql Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6
Important: You must turn off password protection
before using this PowerBook in SCSI Disk Mode.
1.0
THE CHANGES YOU MAKE in this control panel don’t affect the
PowerBook’s normal operation; the setting applies to SCSI Disk Mode only.
Hook Up the Cables
Plug the special SCSI Disk Mode cable into the SCSI port on
the back of the PowerBook. If you want, plug a passthrough
SCSI terminator onto the SCSI Disk Adapter cable. To tell the truth,
we’ve successfully used SCSI Disk Mode without a terminator many
times, but SCSI is voodoo and since Apple recommends a termina-
tor, we’ll stick to the party line. Next connect the HDI-30 cable with ter-
minator to the SCSI port on the other Mac, using either a Centronics-
to-DB25 cable for most desktop Macs, or a Centronics-to-HDI cable if
the other computer is another PowerBook. If your Mac has a SCSI
accelerator card with a different type of connector, use whatever cable
and adapter is necessary.
Fire Up the PowerBook
Turn on the PowerBook. You should soon see a large SCSI
symbol (a diamond surrounding the SCSI ID number you
specified in the first step) bounce around as a rudimentary screen
saver and a reminder that the PowerBook is in SCSI Disk Mode. If you
have a PowerBook 500 series computer, you may not see this icon
until after the next step. It’s now safe to close the screen; the
PowerBook won’t go into Sleep mode.
HERE WE HAVE
THE SCSI DISC
MODE CABLE, the
terminator, and
the Centronics-to-
DB25 SCSI cable
hooked up. Plug
the loose end into
the SCSI port on a
desktop Mac.
WHAT A COOL EXTER-
NAL HARD DRIVE we
have! Your Mac will
have things like Power
Cables too, though.
Start the Desktop Mac
Turn on the other Mac. If your PowerBook automatically
shuts down, you probably forgot to disable password protec-
tion. Otherwise, when the Finder appears, the PowerBook’s
hard drive should be on the desktop along with any other normally
accessible volumes. If the PowerBook’s hard drive is formatted
with HFS-f and the other Mac isn’t running Mac OS 8.1 or later,
the drive appears as a locked volume with a SimpleText document
called “Where have all my files gone?” that explains Mac OS
Extended Format.
ONCE SCSI DISK
MODE IS WORKING,
your PowerBook’s
hard drive shows
up on the other
Mac’s desktop just
like any other hard
drive.
Copy Away!
Feel free to use the PowerBook’s hard drive as you would any
other disk. When you’re done with SCSI Disk Mode, turn off
the other Mac first, then turn off the PowerBook. If you inadvertently
turn off the PowerBook or completely drain the battery when in SCSI
Disk Mode, the icon may remain on the other Mac’s desktop, but
you’ll lose the ability to access its contents.
ONCE HOOKED
UP you can close
your PowerBook
(It won't sleep)
and copy away.
It’ll blow transfer-
ring files via
Ethernet off the
Map!
SEPT/99 MacADDICT 77
how to
ask us
Modem maladies heard & cured. Plus IDE explanations & Network negotiations.
FIND DISK-
TRACKER AND
A DEMO of
Icona-Ranger
on The Disc.
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Time connected: 0112:26
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Questions?
Submit technical questions or helpful tips
directly via email ( askus@macaddict .
com) or c/o MacAddict, 150 North Hill Dr.,
Suite 40 , Brisbane, CA 94005 .
U I recently upgraded my 28.8-Kbps
modem to a new V.90 56-Kbps unit.
Everything has been fine since then, except
that when a connection is established, the
PPP control panel now says, “Connected at
unknown speed.” Is there a new version of
the PPP control panel that shows the correct
connect speeds beyond 28.8 Kbps?
A You don’t need an updated PPP control
panel (called Remote Access in newer ver-
sions of the Mac OS) — rather, you must
download the appropriate script for your
new modem. Go to your modem vendor’s
Web site and locate the latest script for the
model you own. Download this, decompress
it, then drop it in the Modem Scripts folder
inside the Extensions folder in the System
Folder. Then open the Modem control panel
and select the new script from the pop-up
menu. When you go
online, the PPP or
Remote Access con-
trol panel should tell
you the actual con-
nect speed. By the
way, don’t be sur-
prised if your new
56-Kbps modem
never delivers its top
advertised speed.
For one thing,
legally the modem
can’t go faster than
53 Kbps, and even
that is a theoretical
maximum rarely
reached. Something
in the range of
45 to 50 Kbps is
more realistic.
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| Disconnect]
FOR CORRECT CONNECT SPEEDS in
the Remote Access control panel, you
must have the right modem script
selected in the Modem control panel.
Ill We have a PowerBook G3 we’d like to
network with a Power Mac 7200, but the
laptop is running Mac OS 8.1 and our
desktop Mac is running System 7.6. Do we
have to install Mac OS 8.1 on the 7200, or
can we network them via Ethernet as they
are? I don’t know if this changes anything,
but the PowerBook’s hard drive is format-
ted as HFS+.
#1 You’re in luck. Thanks to the pro-
gramming geniuses at Apple, you don’t
have to fiddle with a thing. File Sharing
operates on any Mac running System 7 or
above connected to an AppleTalk network.
There’s no need for all the net-
worked Macs to run the same ver-
sion of the operating system.
Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if
you’re sharing a Mac OS Extended
Format (also called HFS+) volume
over AppleTalk; the Power Mac run-
ning System 7.6 can access all the
files contained on that volume.
U When logging onto the Internet
from home, I set my modem to dial
*70 and temporarily disable Call
Waiting. This keeps the incoming call
beep from bumping me offline. It
works fine, but if someone in the
house inadvertently picks up any of
our many telephones while I’m surf-
ing the Net, my modem drops the connec-
tion. Is there any shareware available that
eliminates this problem?
Pretty as a Picture
B ack in the April 1998 issue, I recom-
mended John McLaughlin’s Iconizer as a
tool for creating cool large graphics composed
entirely of icons. Since then I’ve found a much
better utility called iconaRanger from Leister
Productions (71 7-697-1 378, http‘://www
.leisterpro.com). This $39.95 commercial pro-
gram creates monochrome and color versions
of any given PICT file and chops it up into an
array of empty folder icons. These assemble to
form that image in a Finder window, regardless
of color depth. Doing this by hand would take
hours and drive you crazy, but with
IconaRanger it’s as easy as drag-and-drop. All
you need to use
IconaRanger is a
PICT file, System 7.5
or later, - a 68030
CPU or better, and at
least 2MB of RAM.
Download a working
demo copy (or use
the one on The Disc)
and see for yourself
how easy it is to
create great-looking
images from icons
for use on your per-
sonal or professional !
floppies and CDs.
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A
I don’t think this is a problem you can
solve through software. However, Radio
Shack (800-843-7422, http://www.radk)-
shack.com) sells a $9-99 device called a
Voice Data Guard (model number 43-107),
similar to its discontinued Telephone Line
Restrictor (model number 43-445). Both of
these small boxes plug into your modem’s
telephone line. Whenever your modem is in
ICONARANGER’S INTERFACE AIN’T MUCH
to look at, but it’s a champ at creating
pretty pictures out of icons.
78 MacADDICT SEPT/99
use, anyone picking up a telephone extension
elsewhere in the house will hear nothing, and
nothing will disrupt your data transmission.
Q Our house has one phone line, and we
use a modem on it. The problem is, people
have trouble getting through to us on the
phone when a family member is on the
Internet. I remember seeing some software
advertised on the Web that would pop up an
alert box when someone calls, allowing you
to either ignore the call, cancel the Internet
connection and pick up the phone, or trans-
fer the call. I can’t remember the name or
company, but it was cheaper than getting
another phone line or alternate Internet con-
nection. Do you know where I could find this?
A There are probably other products that
can do what you want, but the first one I
found was HotCall from Command
Communications (800-288-6794 or 303-
751-7000, http://www.command-comm
.com). Your modem, phone, and phone line
all plug into this $79*95 device. Whenever
the device senses the phone company’s Call
Waiting tone (you must subscribe to die Call
Waiting service) on the line, the box beeps
and lights up, giving you the option of ignor-
ing the call or answering the call by picking
up the phone. Depending on your modem,
you may even be able to pick up quickly, tell
the caller you’ll get back to him or her, then
hang up without losing your modem con-
nection. Command Communications also
has a deluxe HotCall model that works in
conjunction with an external Caller ID box,
allowing you to see who is calling before
deciding how to handle the interruption.
Q I have a Power Mac 7 1 00/80, along with
several PCs. I want to network everything to
share printers, scanners, and the like. I have
an Asante Technologies FriendlyNet hub
(800-662-9686 or 408-435-8388, http://
www.asante.com) and all the PCs have
Ethernet 10/100 cards. The back of my 7100
has a funky-looking connection port for
Ethernet, and my manual says to use that.
Where do I buy a cable for it? What is that
called (it’s neither coaxial nor RJ-45)? How
fast will it be? Please advise.
A Not being familiar with every make and
model Mac under the sun, I fired up my
browser and headed over to the Apple Spec
Database (http://support.info.apple.com
/applespec), where Apple maintains specifi-
cation data for all of its computers, past and
present. A quick search and a click or two
was all it took to discover that the Power
Mac 7100 has an AAUI-15 (Apple
Attachment Unit Interface) Ethernet connec-
tor capable of a maximum data transfer rate
of 10 Mbps. To connect this Mac to your
hub, all you need is an inexpensive (around
$30) lOBaseT transceiver, such as
Farallon’s EtherMac (510-346-8000, http://
www.farallon.com). This adapter plugs into
the AAUI-15 connector and gives you an RJ-
45 port just like your PC Cards.
Physically connecting your Power Mac to
the hub is the easy part; dealing with all of
the software hurdles you need to clear for
sharing your peripherals with PCs is beyond
the scope of this humble column. However,
I won’t leave you in the lurch. I recommend
that you visit MacWindows (http://www
.macwindows.com), John Rizzo’s Web site
dedicated to enabling Mac and Windows
computers to work together. There you’ll
find detailed tutorials and solutions for
doing exactly what you want.
Gi I would like to take the information
from a directory window and save it as
editable text, or better still, as a spreadsheet
file. I bum several CDs per month with gen-
eral information on them, and I need some
way of indexing the files and folders.
Currently, I am printing a directory and
manually typing the information into a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. There has got
to be a faster way! Please help!
A You’re dam tooting there’s a better way!
Man, my fingers ache just thinking about all
those keystrokes you’ve wasted. OK, first of
all, did you know that you can print any
directory window in the Finder? Just double-
click the volume in which you’re interested,
make the correct choices from the View
menu so everything looks as you want it,
then choose Print Window from the File
menu, and you get a hard copy of everything
in the window.
If that’s not exactly what you want,
choose Select All from the Edit menu
(Command-A), copy the selection to the
Clipboard (Command-C), then paste it into
your spreadsheet (Command-V). There’s
the editable text you wanted.
Better still, why not rely upon a program
designed specifically to catalog disks? Mark
N. Pirri’s $20 shareware program
DiskTracker, included on every copy of The
Disc and at http://www.disktracker.com, is
a simple drag-and-drop application that
easily indexes every item on a volume for
fast search and retrieval. It even includes
tools for creating nifty-looking labels.
Check it out and start using Excel for what
God intended: calculating Bill Gates’ ever-
growing net worth.
You’ll find a sample chapter of Owen W.
Linzmayer’s new book, Apple Confidential:
The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc., as
an Adobe Acrobat PDF file on The Disc.
Owen W. Linzmayer is a San Francisco-based
freelance writer and the author of the recently
released Apple Confidential (http;//pw1.netcom
.com/~oweninK/confidential.html).
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